Welcome to Meta!
There’s an excellent install guide available here.
This forum has a really friendly community here - if you run into trouble, just let us know where you’re getting stuck and someone will be happy to help you. I hope Discourse is a good fit for you!
Click here to see the official system requirements for Discourse
Hardware
- modern single core CPU, dual-core recommended
- 1 GB RAM minimum (with swap)
- 64-bit Linux-compatible with Docker
- 10 GB disk space minimum
Software
- Postgres 13+
- Redis 6+
- Ruby 2.7 (2.7.2 is strongly recommended)
When it comes to the hardware, I’d generally recommend not getting too close to the minimum specs.