# Installing Discourse for the First Time Using Vultr Hosting

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-for-the-first-time-using-vultr-hosting/57016>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [6 Febrero, 2017 22:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-for-the-first-time-using-vultr-hosting/57016 "2017-02-06T22:37:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [6 Febrero, 2017 23:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-for-the-first-time-using-vultr-hosting/57016/3 "2017-02-06T23:42:35Z")

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Are you following [these instructions?](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md). They make it pretty clear that Ubuntu is what is recommended.

EDIT: Apologies if you **are** following those directions, but if you’re not, you’ll have another 100 questions that are supposed to be easy to find there.

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