# Advice on an easy landing page template to run with Discourse? On the same server?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-an-easy-landing-page-template-to-run-with-discourse-on-the-same-server/13529
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [3월 8, 2014, 6:16오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-an-easy-landing-page-template-to-run-with-discourse-on-the-same-server/13529 "2014-03-08T06:16:57Z")
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### Author:  [@pa5tabear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pa5tabear)
#### Post date: [3월 8, 2014, 6:16오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-an-easy-landing-page-template-to-run-with-discourse-on-the-same-server/13529/1 "2014-03-08T06:16:57Z")
I just set up an instance on Digital Ocean using the Beginner’s Docker guide. I want to set up a landing page as well, and I’m wondering what the best way to do this is.
Would a 1core/1GB droplet be overloaded running both a landing page and a discourse instance? If so, should I have the same nginx serving the landing page as well?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 8, 2014, 6:30오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-an-easy-landing-page-template-to-run-with-discourse-on-the-same-server/13529/2 "2014-03-08T06:30:30Z")
What do you mean by “landing page”? Can you describe the flow or provide examples?
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### Author:  [@pa5tabear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pa5tabear)
#### Post date: [3월 8, 2014, 6:53오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-an-easy-landing-page-template-to-run-with-discourse-on-the-same-server/13529/3 "2014-03-08T06:53:07Z")
I want to set up a “site” for university students to share information about their classes, programs, etc. Mostly just a practice project, but I think there’s room for improvement with this sort of thing, too.
A prime landing page example- “[discourse.org](http://discourse.org)”, which links to [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org) (and more). I assume this was mostly custom designed?
And that the answer to the hosting question depends on how many viewers/users you have for your Discourse instance and “landing page”?
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### Author:  [@Azathoth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Azathoth)
#### Post date: [3월 10, 2014, 7:27오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-an-easy-landing-page-template-to-run-with-discourse-on-the-same-server/13529/4 "2014-03-10T07:27:28Z")
If the landing page is simple static HTML, I’d set up another nginx on the host with two “server” sections.
- One [forwarding traffic](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-configure-nginx-as-a-front-end-proxy-for-apache) to the Discourse docker instance for “forum.\*” requests (you’d need to alter docker’s exposed port from 80 to e.g. 8080 in “/var/docker/containers/app.yml”).
- And one section for the landing site address and point it to e.g. “/var/www” on the host and save your HTML files there.
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### Author:  [@pa5tabear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pa5tabear)
#### Post date: [3월 12, 2014, 8:46오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-an-easy-landing-page-template-to-run-with-discourse-on-the-same-server/13529/5 "2014-03-12T20:46:04Z")
Is it possible to have a Discourse instance hosted on Digital Ocean, have a landing page hosted on somewhere that’s not Digital Ocean, and still have both using the same domain (the landing page at [domain.org](http://domain.org), and the discourse at [discourse.domain.org](http://discourse.domain.org))?
Are there other elegant ways to connect two separately hosted website components?
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### Author:  [@illspirit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/illspirit)
#### Post date: [3월 12, 2014, 9:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-an-easy-landing-page-template-to-run-with-discourse-on-the-same-server/13529/6 "2014-03-12T21:30:33Z")
> [@pa5tabear](#):
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> Is it possible to have a Discourse instance hosted on Digital Ocean, have a landing page hosted on somewhere that’s not Digital Ocean, and still have both using the same domain (the landing page at [domain.org](http://domain.org), and the discourse at [discourse.domain.org](http://discourse.domain.org))?
It’s as easy as changing the subdomain’s dns to the digital ocean IP address.
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### Author:  [@ron\_jeremy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ron_jeremy)
#### Post date: [7월 16, 2016, 4:47오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-an-easy-landing-page-template-to-run-with-discourse-on-the-same-server/13529/8 "2016-07-16T16:47:56Z")
[quote=“pa5tabear, post:5, topic:13529, full:true”]
Is it possible to have a Discourse instance hosted on Digital Ocean, have a landing page hosted on somewhere that’s not Digital Ocean, and still have both using the same domain (the landing page at [domain.org](http://domain.org), and the discourse at [discourse.domain.org](http://discourse.domain.org))?
Are there other elegant ways to connect two separately hosted website components?
[/quote]I do exatly that. I use a $5/month Squarespace ‘Cover Page’ as my landing page, at [http://singletrackbc.com](http://singletrackbc.com), and host the forum on a DO droplet at [http://forum.singletrackbc.com](http://forum.singletrackbc.com).
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [7월 16, 2016, 5:33오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advice-on-an-easy-landing-page-template-to-run-with-discourse-on-the-same-server/13529/9 "2016-07-16T17:33:43Z")