Hi Mark,
Thanks for the update. I understand the situation, and no worries about the delay. Regarding Discourse installation on Debian, I see no issue with that—Debian should work just fine for our needs. I'll provide the SSH public key shortly.
For hosting, Hostnoc offers excellent options for spinning up dedicated servers, and we can also set up a host rust server if needed. Here is the link of guide: (https://www.hostnoc.com/rust-server-hosting/)
Best, David