# Discourse 能否在不具备 root 权限的情况下安装？

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-be-installed-without-root-access/117413
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [2019年五月10日 17:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-be-installed-without-root-access/117413 "2019-05-10T17:46:48Z")
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### Author: ![Leviticus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/leviticus/32/140706_2.png) [@Leviticus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Leviticus)
#### Post date: [2019年五月10日 17:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-be-installed-without-root-access/117413/1 "2019-05-10T17:46:48Z")

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I have web space that is on a shared server that I do not have the option to get root access to. Is there a workaround for installing Discourse without having root level?

Thanks,

Leviticus

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [2019年五月10日 17:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-be-installed-without-root-access/117413/2 "2019-05-10T17:50:51Z")

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No that type of hosting isn’t supported.

However, getting a compatible VPS nowadays is very cheap at $5 in multiple places, like Digital Ocean and Vultr.

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### Author: ![Leviticus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/leviticus/32/140706_2.png) [@Leviticus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Leviticus)
#### Post date: [2019年五月10日 17:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-be-installed-without-root-access/117413/3 "2019-05-10T17:59:59Z")

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Thanks for your reply. I looked at Digital Ocean.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/4/844d03080a4d425ea44c1bd8b5d692778b93d53f.png)

For $5 a month you get 25GB of space. If you have 50 Discourse members posting pictures and video links dozens per day…will 25 GB get eaten up fairly quick?

Does Discourse have a database trimming feature?

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [2019年五月10日 18:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-be-installed-without-root-access/117413/4 "2019-05-10T18:07:28Z")

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> [@Leviticus](#):
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> video links

A video link, to let’s say YouTube is 43 bytes. 5GB can store 116279070 of those 😉.

When disk space becomes an actual problem, instead of a theoretical one, you can use either [High-Performance Block Storage | Starting at $10/mo for 100 GiB](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/block-storage/) (at $0.10/month) or [DigitalOcean Spaces | S3-Compatible Object Storage](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/) at $5 for 250GB.

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2019年五月10日 18:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-be-installed-without-root-access/117413/5 "2019-05-10T18:53:39Z")

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If you are expecting lots of uploads, I’d recommend going for the $10 2gb droplet and use spaces for uploads.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2019年六月9日 18:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-be-installed-without-root-access/117413/6 "2019-06-09T18:53:39Z")

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