# Difference between Digital Ocean Install and Bitnami
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** unsupported-install
**Created:** [July 30, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461 "2019-07-30T21:37:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@PaigeLynn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PaigeLynn)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/1 "2019-07-30T21:37:43Z")
So general question whats the difference between the digital ocean install and AWS Discourse certified by Bitnami
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### Author:  [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/2 "2019-07-30T21:39:31Z")
Discourse does not support (as helps to troubleshoot) any other installation method that’s different from their guide. That image is updated and managed by Bitnami, and my understanding was that it was broken (at least the last time I heard something about it).
The thing is, Discourse team ensures everything will work when using their install guide, everything else, is 100% on you.
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### Author:  [@PaigeLynn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PaigeLynn)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/3 "2019-07-30T22:33:33Z")
I’m not asking for support I’m simply asking what the difference is cause I always see that
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### Author:  [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/4 "2019-07-30T22:37:10Z")
That’s it. You won’t get support, the image is not done by Discourse, so they won’t ensure it represents the one here, that’s totally it.
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### Author:  [@PaigeLynn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PaigeLynn)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/5 "2019-07-30T22:43:13Z")
Ahh thanks so it’s basically 3rd party
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### Author:  [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/6 "2019-07-30T22:44:52Z")
Yes, it’s a 3rd party form of delivery of the same software.
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### Author:  [@PaigeLynn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PaigeLynn)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/7 "2019-07-31T00:09:47Z")
Thanks 🙂 I have it installed via a guide but when I was looking into AWS and Google cloud this is what showed so thanks for explaijg it to me @marianord
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### Author:  [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/8 "2019-07-31T00:28:01Z")
No problem. I’ve been in that position as I’ve been tinkering with the idea of changing from Digital Ocean a few times, trying to lower the maintenance costs.
But I really haven’t found any other solution that’s really cheaper with the same or better performance.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/9 "2019-07-31T00:49:57Z")
And it likely won’t work. And none of the documentation here will help you. You can get help from the bitnami forum, though.
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### Author:  [@PaigeLynn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PaigeLynn)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/10 "2019-07-31T01:52:54Z")
Lol I know I tried it when I first went with Google cloud and couldn’t get shit running no help whatso ever in there docs lol and that tacky popup saying your using Bitnami that’s why I wondered the difference
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/11 "2019-07-31T02:35:52Z")
So just follow the install cloud document here and it’ll work.
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### Author:  [@PaigeLynn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PaigeLynn)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 2:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-digital-ocean-install-and-bitnami/124461/12 "2019-07-31T02:36:34Z")
I already have it installed lol I just wanted to know the difference tbh cause something didn’t seem right to me that’s all