# Discourse as „local“ private social network

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-local-private-social-network/108605>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 7, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-local-private-social-network/108605 "2019-02-07T15:32:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-local-private-social-network/108605/4 "2019-02-07T21:51:11Z")

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Have you considered $5 a month cloud install? If you enable full disk encryption prior to installing on the cloud you will be in a pretty safe state. Certainly a world safer than keeping photos on facebook.

At $60 bucks a year this is pretty much what you would pay for a password manager on the cloud.

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