# 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")\
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> [@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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