# How should Discourse System Market itself? **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Tags:** hosting\ **Created:** [February 10, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-discourse-system-market-itself/57221 "2017-02-10T19:15:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![michaeld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaeld/32/1594_2.png) [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-discourse-system-market-itself/57221/4 "2017-02-10T20:15:28Z")
E[quote=“xiasummer, post:1, topic:57221”] It seems that someone is trying to popularize the forums based on discourse. What’s this company? Who is marketing? [/quote] We’re not _trying_ to do that - we (me and @rgj) have already been doing that pretty succesfully for 3.5 years - we got our first hosting customer on August 2, 2013. This was even before [discourse.org](http://discourse.org) was selling their hosting 🙂 We have had previous experience in secure and high available application hosting and when we read about Discourse 4 years ago we immediately saw the beauty of Discourse, but also realized that Ruby on Rails is much harder to host than for instance PHP. And that is when we decided to see if there was some market potential. I think we are doing a pretty nice job in delivering good value for money and we have a good reputation in the market. These two things are the absolute requirements for being succesful. We’re trying to innovate continuously and are trying to contribute to the ecosystem wherever we see something lacking, so we authored a few plugins like the [adsense plugin](https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-adsense), the [migrate-password plugin](https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-migratepassword) and the [sitemap plugin](https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-sitemap). We also built the [first working SSO mechanism](https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-sso) which has been deprecated for the official SSO implementation, but still makes us proud. Ok, enough about us. What do you mean when you say that Discourse is not so market friendly? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-discourse-system-market-itself/57221)._