# Digital Ocean vs Linode? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-vs-linode/107783 **Category:** Self-hosting **Tags:** hosting **Created:** [January 27, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-vs-linode/107783 "2019-01-27T16:25:30Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![Remah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/remah/32/70590_2.png) [@Remah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Remah) #### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-vs-linode/107783/3 "2019-01-28T18:54:42Z")
The [Discourse guide to install in the cloud](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md) specifies system requirements at the top. There are many topics comparing Digital Ocean, Linode and other hosting solutions, e.g.: > [@Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-hosting-providers-for-self-hosters/79562): > > 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 and running with as little fiddling as possible. You should be able to create an account, and a server on which to run your Discourse instance and still be able to pull the job off in very close to 30 minutes. I have installed Discourse on each of these, received an email from Di… > [@Linode now has a $5/mo option](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linode-now-has-a-5-mo-option/57418/18): > > Jul 2017 comparison Linode vs DigitalOcean vs Vultr vs Lightsail --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-vs-linode/107783)._