# Discourse hosting on Linode? **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Tags:** hosting\ **Created:** [October 5, 2022, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-on-linode/240977 "2022-10-05T07:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![denvergeeks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/denvergeeks/32/327671_2.png) [@denvergeeks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/denvergeeks)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 7:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-on-linode/240977/1 "2022-10-05T07:00:36Z")
I followed the tutorial below which got me up and running quickly and simply on Linode (something I was also able to do, but with much more difficulty on DigitalOcean). Through searching on this forum I became aware of a general bias toward Digital Ocean. Notwithstanding this, getting a Discourse up nd running on Linode turned out to be more simple (perhaps only due to this concise Youtube Tutorial…) [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/8/a/98ab7bda9de138c1ae9b8cc4bfce22c91697e6d9.jpeg "TechHut The Surprisingly Easy Way to Install Discourse with Free SSL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5-lQQVMYsQ) I am agnostic about Discourse hosting providers, except that (of course in addition to value for my dollar) I lean toward any platform that can SIMPLIFY things for me as a novice dev. I do through my research on this forum recall the Devs here generally advising in support of D.O for (perhaps among other things) potential security advantages. Currently I am happily running a development and testing instance of Discourse on Linode (with essentially no traffic) on a 2 GB RAM and 50 GB Disk for $12.50/monthly (including their backup option), and would very much appreciate any current analysis or advisement upon which platform to deploy a production Discourse instance best optimized for (potential) scalability? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-on-linode/240977)._