# First steps on installing Discourse **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [February 28, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-steps-on-installing-discourse/110372 "2019-02-28T17:58:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![verilog15](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9f8e36/32.png) [@verilog15](https://meta.discourse.org/u/verilog15)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-steps-on-installing-discourse/110372/1 "2019-02-28T17:58:34Z")
I’m a developer but I’m not very familiar with the “forum/community” field. I would like to learn all about it. I decided to create a forum which will have the label “Math, CS and Physics” (Does not really matter). I found Discourse and it looks amazing. After some reading, I understood that in order to install Discourse, I have to buy a VPS. I don’t mind to spend some bucks on great things like that, but before doing it I’m trying to make a little research about them. I was wondering if there is a proper guide of how to install Discourse on a VPS (like Amazon or Cloudsigma) that I could use. I saw the guide on Github but as I understand it talks about installing Discourse on local server. Just feeling a bit lost and hope someone can point me to the right direction. If someone has some time to spend on me, I would be more then glad to have a PM from you! Thank you for your patience. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-steps-on-installing-discourse/110372)._