Installation

Hosting Topics about hosting Discourse, either on your own servers, in the cloud, or with specific hosting services.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Installation category Installation	0	11398	October 10, 2014
Major upgrade -- best practices? Installation	11	90	August 29, 2025
Is Docker image discourse/discourse considered safe and production-ready? Hosting	9	106	August 28, 2025
Bitnami Discourse container image is deprecated Hosting unsupported-install	1	172	August 28, 2025
Can Discourse run on CodeSandbox? Installation dev-install	0	22	August 27, 2025
Failing update Installation	34	176	August 26, 2025
Does the mail-receiver work with arm? Installation mail-receiver , arm	14	892	August 22, 2025
Crash after last update Installation	3	35	August 20, 2025
Best practices for testing before upgrade? Hosting stable	1	34	August 19, 2025
Guide to Setting Up Discourse Development Environment - Windows 11 Installation dev-install	14	3092	August 19, 2025
Fresh install discourse 3.4.7 fail : Failed to create 'badge_posts' view Installation badges , install , postgres , unsupported-install	1	44	August 16, 2025
10-year self-hosted discourse admin asks: why not launcher cleanup as part of rebuild? Installation	14	236	August 15, 2025
How can I minimize the discourse Docker image size? Installation	6	86	August 14, 2025
Moving discourse instance to a new server Installation	6	66	August 11, 2025
Infinite loop during postgres upgrade Installation	10	982	August 18, 2025
Bootstrap error during Discourse install: ENOENT - /etc/runit/1.d/letsencrypt Installation	17	217	August 8, 2025
Migration to a Self-Hosted solution from Kubernetes Installation migrations-tooling , install	1	50	August 7, 2025
Unable to upgrade Kore Community Instance Installation	4	73	August 7, 2025
Guide to configure Discourse on Amazon Web services (AWS) EC2 Installation	3	5378	August 5, 2025
Discourse Fails to update in the Admin UI - No matter what Installation	31	222	August 5, 2025
Issues Updating/Rebuilding to Beta7 Installation	11	154	August 4, 2025
Selfhosting with Cloudflare/OPNSense/Dynamic External IP Hosting	0	20	August 4, 2025
Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters Hosting This guide is intended for people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. This is a list of cloud hosting services that are believed to be reliable and easy enough for a novice to get up a…	115	29689	August 2, 2025
Archived Plugins Now Bundled into Core – Migration & Version Compatibility Questions Installation	1	36	August 1, 2025
Notes on methods for bulk posting using API Installation chinese-translation	2	460	July 31, 2025
Help me debug failed migrations PushFixTopicEmbedAuthorsJob Installation	8	72	July 30, 2025
Troubleshooting bootstrap failures in Discourse Installation	14	106	July 28, 2025
How do I find out what is causing this spike? Installation	5	59	July 28, 2025
How to Install Discourse Plugins Hosted in Private Repositories Using SSH Key? Installation	8	65	July 26, 2025
Is there a free vps or container that can run Discourse? Hosting	6	146	July 25, 2025