I bought a Ubuntu 18.04, 64bit VPS from Hostinger and I’m trying to install discourse but keep getting this error: [image]

[image] Zinfas: Hostinger What Hostinger plan are you on?

I’m currently on plan 2, this is what best fit the requirements per instruction here: discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub

Is this their VPS offer from VPS Hosting | Powerful KVM-based Virtual Private Server ? This error, like the error message says, means that this isn’t a real hardware and neither a full virtualization. I checked Hostinger page, and for their “cloud hosting” product they use LVE containers which won…

I couldn’t get DigitalOcean to work sadly, I prepaid with 25$ and they locked my account immediately after.

Oh sorry to hear that. I had that happen to me in some providers… The vultr that costs $5 from https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/ also work.

Failed to create swap: are you root?

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Zinfas (Zinfas) January 21, 2020, 12:04am 7

Thank you, I will have a look

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Failed to create swap: are you root?

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