# Help me get Discourse set up for the first time **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-me-get-discourse-set-up-for-the-first-time/150565 **Category:** Self-hosting **Created:** [May 6, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-me-get-discourse-set-up-for-the-first-time/150565 "2020-05-06T07:28:16Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 13
### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield) #### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-me-get-discourse-set-up-for-the-first-time/150565/13 "2020-05-06T15:07:04Z")
> [@Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-hosting-providers-for-self-hosters/79562): > > This guide is intended for people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. This is a list of cloud hosting services that are believed to be reliable and easy enough for a novice to get up and running with as little fiddling as possible. You should be able to create an account, and a server on which to run your Discourse instance and still be able to pull the job off in very close to 30 minutes. I have installed Discourse on each of these, received an email from Di… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-me-get-discourse-set-up-for-the-first-time/150565)._