# 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>\
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**Created:** [2016 年 9 月 26 日午後 4:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677 "2016-09-26T16:56:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![zcalbrecht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/49beb7/32.png) [@zcalbrecht](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zcalbrecht)\
**Post date:** [2016 年 9 月 26 日午後 11:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcefully-install-discourse-on-256-or-512-ram-machine/50677/4 "2016-09-26T23:50:18Z")

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> [@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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