# Hosting Discourse on a Raspberry Pi?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-discourse-on-a-raspberry-pi/117422>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** arm, hosting\
**Created:** [May 10, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-discourse-on-a-raspberry-pi/117422 "2019-05-10T19:50:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![sneak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@sneak](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sneak)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-discourse-on-a-raspberry-pi/117422/18 "2020-02-06T03:25:16Z")

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I’m attempting to set up a private Discourse forum on a Raspberry Pi 4 (quad core, 4GB ram) with reasonably fast disk. It’s only going to have maybe a few dozen users, and I’m not really concerned about speeds. I use 4GB Pi4s for some other, much more disk-intensive tasks and they work okay, especially with USB3 storage.

I ran into some issues related to expectations of x86\_64 arch:

```plaintext
standard_init_linux.go:211: exec user process caused "exec format error"

```

I’m going to begin looking into fixing them. There’s theoretically nothing I know about that would prevent any of the code or gems or supporting services from running fine on this system.

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