# Forcefully install Discourse on 256 or 512 RAM machine
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [2016年九月26日 16:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677 "2016-09-26T16:56:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@seanmavley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanmavley)
#### Post date: [2016年九月26日 16:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/1 "2016-09-26T16:56:30Z")
I’m high this afternoon, and wanna give Discourse a try. All I’ve got on my server is a 512 RAM and a single core.
Honestly, that’s ALL I have. I ALSO want to use Discourse.
Please, what do I do? If that’ll mean sending my server Crashing, yep, I want to do it, steps please?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2016年九月26日 17:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/2 "2016-09-26T17:29:34Z")
You’ll need to set up swap, at least 2GB. Copy `samples/standalone.yml` to `containers` and edit it.
As you point out. It’s not recommended. 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年九月26日 19:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/3 "2016-09-26T19:15:29Z")
We do not recommend this for a site that will be used by more than 1 person at a time. Or really, ever.
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### Author:  [@zcalbrecht](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zcalbrecht)
#### Post date: [2016年九月26日 23:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/4 "2016-09-26T23:50:18Z")
> [@seanmavley](#):
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> I’m high this afternoon, and wanna give Discourse a try. All I’ve got on my server is a 512 RAM and a single core.
I can personally say it works, and not as bad as you would expect. I’m doing it with my small community (30 active users) and while it’s _kind of_ slow, I’ve not heard any complaints and everything functions as intended.
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### Author:  [@seanmavley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanmavley)
#### Post date: [2016年九月27日 10:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/5 "2016-09-27T10:36:57Z")
Yep, thanks for the reminder. I ultimately know and I’m aware, fully to the maximum extent, YET, I want to do that. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@seanmavley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanmavley)
#### Post date: [2016年九月27日 10:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/6 "2016-09-27T10:40:27Z")
You know what, I don’t plan to use 256 or 512 in production. However, the fact that to spin up and test using 512 for my personal use and test as a dev is even proclaimed as an abomination makes me sick!
Thanks for tip.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年九月27日 10:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/7 "2016-09-27T10:41:11Z")
For personal use it is fine. I did say “more than one user” and you are indeed one user 😉
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### Author:  [@seanmavley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanmavley)
#### Post date: [2016年九月27日 10:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/8 "2016-09-27T10:56:08Z")
But as it stands now, Discourse won’t let me even install by default, strictly saying I must have not less than 1 Gig RAM.
Of course, as indicated earlier in this thread, there’s a workaround, but at least the warning should offer a link to somewhere explaining how someone could still install with less specs, however declaring all the warnings.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2016年九月27日 20:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/9 "2016-09-27T20:12:47Z")
> [@seanmavley](#):
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> But as it stands now, Discourse won’t let me even install by default, strictly saying I must have not less than 1 Gig RAM.
Indeed. `discourse-setup` is designed to work for **most** people, and especially, people who do not know about system administration. If it allowed people to install on a 512GB machine then people would complain that it was too slow or they were out of memory.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [2016年九月27日 20:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/10 "2016-09-27T20:21:28Z")
@seanmavley Would it be possible to install on a thumb / flash drive for virtual RAM?