# Discourse Hosting with traditional hosting interface

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-with-traditional-hosting-interface/280163
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [September 26, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-with-traditional-hosting-interface/280163 "2023-09-26T12:20:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![ojike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ojike/32/329246_2.png) [@ojike](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ojike)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-with-traditional-hosting-interface/280163/1 "2023-09-26T12:20:29Z")

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Can anyone recommend to me because Digital Ocean appears too technical for me

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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-with-traditional-hosting-interface/280163/2 "2023-09-26T12:25:28Z")

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Hi @ojike 👋 welcome to Meta 🙂  
I think if you are finding that kind of self-hosting to be too-technical, it might be a good idea to seek out an assisted hosting solution, like [Discourse Hosting](https://www.discourse.org/pricing), [Literate Computing](https://www.literatecomputing.com/) or [Communiteq](https://www.communiteq.com/).

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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2023, 12:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-with-traditional-hosting-interface/280163/3 "2023-09-26T12:50:15Z")

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Our hosting at [Communiteq](https://www.communiteq.com/) comes with a full featured control panel where you can manage your forum and - on the Professional plan and up - add and remove plugins.

The hosting also comes with backups, managed updates and in- and outbound email services.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/6/b/d6b29f4339c34e7aa5bbb6d1e20f4ed5a748f475.png)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/6/0/6600e70e6d539897e39cb2c787d91fe9387a3a06.png)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/f/7/cf7c5c9ccad910033f66ec9b2fcdeafd86227f82.png)

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hosting-with-traditional-hosting-interface/280163/4 "2023-09-26T14:26:22Z")

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If you want to self-host the [Literate Computing Dashboard](https://dashboard.literatecomputing.com/) will create your droplet, configure mailgun, send you an email with the DNS records you need to create; when you’ve created the records, it will install Discourse and send an email when it’s done. You’ll then have a [Standard Install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true).

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/3/d/43d4b1040f7f969768f7189e3d73fc450fa4bb89.png)

Once you’re installed, you can use the Dashboard to do command line rebuilds:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/8/6/c864e7461a8aaf76015b73e577097eb15fe40dc7.png)

You can also use the Dashboard to manage plugins:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/5/4/b541e5dc1c7abfe38fffb0676033e4c0fa166a6f.png)

If you get stuck, we’ll help you get going again.