DiscourseHosting

What do you like best?

Easy to navigate and use, uptime is great as any downtime to servers puts a huge halt to productivity. I think it is a great service for those that need it. I have no use for it anymore as I primarily use discord now because it is free and fits what we need better. I think the premium plans have more to offer and if we could have afforded it would definitely have made discoursehosting more attractive to us

What do you dislike?

Very pricey for what it offers, as it is just a hosting service. I would prefer there to be more tiered pricing plans for smaller businesses that offer the extra plugin space and more storage. 10GB Storage is not enough for tech-heavy work, but if you are a company that doesn;t work in things that are so tech heavy or large file creating then it would probably be okay.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you are able to afford it, their premium plans seem to offer a lot for the price. But the cheaper plan is definitely leaving something to be desired

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Keep track of work and projects for the most part. I don;t use it anymore but when I did we used it mostly as a way to keep track of work and projects. hosting is indeed a lot more expensive, especially for folks that can spend the 30 minutes installing on digitalocean. If I had the money however, I would consider it to fund discourse development, as you said. The free customer support here has been worth its weight in gold.