# German 1&1-hosting user experience? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-1-1-hosting-user-experience/24931 **Category:** Self-hosting **Tags:** hosting **Created:** [2015年二月7日 00:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-1-1-hosting-user-experience/24931 "2015-02-07T00:56:14Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard) #### Post date: [2015年二月7日 11:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-1-1-hosting-user-experience/24931/5 "2015-02-07T11:40:39Z")
> [@terraboss](#): > > Maybe I’ll have a look at other cheap german hosters to get my community running. Must it be a (cheap) German hoster or would it be enough if it’s hosted in a German datacenter? [VULTR](https://www.vultr.com/) has a location in Frankfurt and [Linode is planning to expand](https://blog.linode.com/2015/01/16/linode-datacenter-expansion/) to Germany too. And of course there’s [JiffyBox](http://www.df.eu/de/cloud-hosting/cloud-server/) (from the German hoster domainfactory) which has a quite good price/performance ratio. All of them would allow you to use Docker and install a custom kernel. For VULTR see also > [@Discourse and Vultr? Where to start on new instance for multi?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-vultr-where-to-start-on-new-instance-for-multi/23134): > > Hey there! I have been ‘shopping’ for different forum solutions that have nothing to do with PHP and really innovate the entire ‘thing’ of forums. I’ve checked out NodeBB but it is lacking in community-related aspects that I need for my forum. Discourse looks to be exactly what I need. I noticed the emphasis on DO around here. I tried them, did my research. I decided instead to go to [Vultr](http://vultr.com). My questions are: Will Discourse work on a Vultr instance? If so, is the 4GB Memory and 2 CPU en… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-1-1-hosting-user-experience/24931)._