# GoDaddy Discourse Install. Pros/Cons
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [February 10, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228 "2017-02-10T22:06:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Raballo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Marco_Raballo)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228/1 "2017-02-10T22:06:40Z")
Hey everyone, im looking into installing Discourse through a GoDaddy hosting:
[https://www.godaddy.com/pro/one-click-installation/discourse?countryview=1](https://www.godaddy.com/pro/one-click-installation/discourse?countryview=1)
I already have GoDaddy’s service hired for email and Webflow webpage hosting and wanted an expert and user opinion on implementing this install. Every input would be appreciated, i already know using digital ocean would be a more accurate choice, but i want to give it a try and optimize already allocated resources.
The general idea would be to implement Discourse’s forum platform as a sub-domain to my already existing Webflow webpage (Hosted by GoDaddy). Im sorry in advance if i have some concept errors, not my field of expertise.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228/2 "2017-02-10T22:30:01Z")
> [@Marco\_Raballo](#):
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> i want to give it a try and optimize already allocated resources.
Then give it a try. It’s not that hard to move from one provider to another, just back up the old site, download it, upload it to the new one and restore it there.
Edit: sounds like avoiding it would be wise.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228/3 "2017-02-11T01:38:12Z")
> [@Marco\_Raballo](#):
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> wanted an expert and user opinion on implementing this install
Looks like it’s a bitnami install, so please don’t use it. It’s an old, unsupported install with security problems.
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### Author:  [@mitchellk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mitchellk)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 6:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228/4 "2017-02-11T06:58:33Z")
I would avoid GoDaddy for hosting, they cannot even seem to provide a proper wordpress platform to their users as they took wordpress and fiddled with it to fit within their messy system, go read their user communities. I am a long time GD customer but only for domain name purchases and nothing else.
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 7:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228/5 "2017-02-11T07:46:36Z")
The fact that they recommend 1GB and even offer 512MB memory plans says enough 🙂
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Raballo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Marco_Raballo)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228/6 "2017-02-16T21:19:27Z")
Thanks! Guess the same goes for amazon hosting right?
> **[AWS Marketplace: Search Results](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?searchTerms=discourse&page=1&ref_=nav_search_box)**
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228/7 "2017-02-16T21:26:49Z")
> [@Marco\_Raballo](#):
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> Guess the same goes for amazon hosting right?
Yes, if it’s using Bitnami, it’s problematic. Specifically:
> **Latest Version** 1.5.3-1-r28
That’s quite an old version of Discourse. There’s a lot of new hawtness available, _and_ a number of quite critical security bugs fixed, that you’d be missing out on using that version.
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### Author:  [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228/8 "2017-02-16T21:27:35Z")
For Amazon I just used a Ubuntu (16.04) AMI and followed the install cloud instructions. Works fine for testing with a free tier, I ended up going to more ram and increased the disk space, but the sandbox install I am working with is 1.8 Million posts, and 40K user accounts.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228/9 "2017-02-16T23:05:13Z")
The new Amazon LightSail also works with Discourse, I tested myself. The price is bad, you get more performance from a same price Digital Ocean droplet, but it does work.
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### Author:  [@thephotographyblog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thephotographyblog)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-discourse-install-pros-cons/57228/10 "2018-06-01T16:06:42Z")
I don’t even think you can install it because their VPS is cPanel based, which means that they probably don’t support Discourse’s required technologies.