# Installing Discourse using Portainer

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-using-portainer/170987>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** unsupported-install, hosting\
**Created:** [November 23, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-using-portainer/170987 "2020-11-23T08:19:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![justin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/justin/32/157614_2.png) [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-using-portainer/170987/4 "2020-11-23T17:01:55Z")

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> [@marianord](#):
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> Because they only support one installation type, which is in a clean VPS where all the modifications and scripts run without any issue. Anything else is a custom installation and they won’t support it as the ways to use containers is infinite.

Yes we have only one [official install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) largely to allow our community to support it well. If we had more, it would be difficult for everyone to provide quality troubleshooting and setup advice.

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