# Installing on Server
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-on-server/25771
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [February 27, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-on-server/25771 "2015-02-27T11:35:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Spedwards](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Spedwards)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-on-server/25771/1 "2015-02-27T11:35:21Z")
Hi,
Some time ago I was apart of a community that used Discourse for it’s forum and now I’ve got my own website up and I’d like a forum to go along with it, however I cannot find any download or guide to install Discourse on my own website.
If available, can someone please link me to a guide and/or a download for Discourse. If it changes anything, my site is using WordPress.
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### Author:  [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2015, 11:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-on-server/25771/2 "2015-02-27T11:48:23Z")
Err. This is an odd question.
Try going to [discourse.org](http://discourse.org)
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2015, 12:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-on-server/25771/3 "2015-02-27T12:13:30Z")
See this entry in the FAQ: [How do I get it?](http://www.discourse.org/faq/#get-it)
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### Author:  [@Spedwards](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Spedwards)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-on-server/25771/4 "2015-02-27T12:27:23Z")
AS far as I could tell, that was to set it up on a DigitalOcean server.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2015, 12:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-on-server/25771/5 "2015-02-27T12:34:45Z")
From [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-digital-ocean.md:](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-digital-ocean.md:)
> While this guide uses Digital Ocean, these steps will work on other cloud providers and local installs that also support Docker.
So, just ignore the steps for creating/configuring your Digital Ocean droplet and start with the installation of Docker.
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### Author:  [@sigurdur](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sigurdur)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-on-server/25771/6 "2015-02-27T14:44:07Z")
Just to be clear, you NEED to be running a server (or have a docker environment) to set up discourse.
You can’t set up Discourse on a shared hosting environment (like Hostgator/Godaddy/Bluehost/etc)
Alternatively, you can always just let others manage the server stuff so you can do what you do best - run the forum 😄
There are two hosting providers I know of:
1. [Discourse.org](http://Discourse.org) (the official guys - highly recommended) - [Discourse pricing | Discourse - Civilized Discussion](https://discourse.org/pricing/)
2. Discourse Hosting - [https://www.communiteq.com/](https://www.communiteq.com/)