# Discourse Hosting and Space

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-and-space/67620>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [7 Agosto 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-and-space/67620 "2017-08-07T23:50:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![maiki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maiki/32/233950_2.png) [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)\
**Post date:** [8 Agosto 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-and-space/67620/5 "2017-08-08T00:36:52Z")

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> [@gina\_riley](#):
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> Pardon my ignorance, but by reading this, I am under the impression, I do not need to buy hosting space from one of the providers (bluehost, ipage), just a standard droplet from digitalocean, then sign up with a hosting plan or does the hosting plan include digitalocean?

There are two kinds of hosting you are talking about, so let’s clear that up real quick:

- Bluehost, et al., are _web hosting_ companies.
- DigitalOcean is a _virtual server hosting_ company.

So your blog is fine at a web hosting company, but Discourse requires its own server. It is technically possible to host all your stuff on a server at DigitalOcean, but it is not practical, especially for your use case.

That means you will need web hosting for your blog, and separately a server for your forums. It is more expensive, obviously, but getting started you can get both for $10 or $15 a month, each. 🙂

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