# Help me host discourse I am stuck

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-me-host-discourse-i-am-stuck/19767>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [2014 年 9 月 7 日午後 10:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-me-host-discourse-i-am-stuck/19767 "2014-09-07T22:24:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![elberet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elberet/32/122404_2.png) [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)\
**Post date:** [2014 年 9 月 8 日午後 12:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-me-host-discourse-i-am-stuck/19767/8 "2014-09-08T12:04:42Z")

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Despite what codinghorror says, there are plenty of people here on Meta who can help with questions and problems with manual installs…

However:

You absolutely, without question, 100% **need** to have a private server. Whether it’s a virtualized machine or a real machine does not make much difference, but unless you can SSH into the server, become `root` and create and drop databases at a whim, you won’t be able to install Discourse.

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/c/0c8c3ed47a52a751aa9ff14896e2d4510affed82.jpg)

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