# Hosting Discourse on Shared Hosting?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-discourse-on-shared-hosting/26195
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [March 10, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-discourse-on-shared-hosting/26195 "2015-03-10T23:58:32Z")
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### Author: ![tkiblin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tkiblin/32/121586_2.png) [@tkiblin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tkiblin)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-discourse-on-shared-hosting/26195/2 "2015-03-11T00:31:10Z")

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No it isn’t on shared hosting, as it requires Docker to do the install,  
which requires special kernel versions and such.

Idiot for asking? No. Idiot for not searching for something that has been  
answered bunch of times already, perhaps. 🙂

Tom

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