# One-time install, domain and hosting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-domain-and-hosting/30626
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [June 30, 2015, 9:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-domain-and-hosting/30626 "2015-06-30T09:14:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@AlexTemina](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexTemina)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2015, 9:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-domain-and-hosting/30626/1 "2015-06-30T09:14:45Z")
Hi, I am thinking on creating a website with a discourse forum.
I don’t have anything at all, no domains, no hostings… I am thinking about using one-time install plan, but I’m not sure what it’s in the package.
do I get a domain? I saw when registering that I cannot put a domain, but a subdomain for the foum.
What if, apart from the forum, I want to have a portal with news, tutorials and more? it would directly be connected with the forum, too.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-domain-and-hosting/30626/2 "2015-06-30T21:57:38Z")
All you need for the $99 one-time, self-supported install is a domain name.
The domain name is not included, you must purchase and control the domain name yourself.
You can put Discourse at `www.example.com` or `example.com` if you want, but we only recommend that if you are absolutely sure you will never, ever have any other content on the domain.
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### Author:  [@carninglipartners](https://meta.discourse.org/u/carninglipartners)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-domain-and-hosting/30626/3 "2015-08-15T14:19:46Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> You can put Discourse at [www.example.com](http://www.example.com) or [example.com](http://example.com) if you want, but we only recommend that if you are absolutely sure you will never, ever have any other content on the domain.
Like the original poster here I am thinking of grabbing a domain name (`example.com`) and buying the “one-time install” package to get Discourse up and runnning. The plan is to run a small forum, but in future I may want to implement other functionality in addition to the forum.
1. In your comment above, do you mean that an address like `discourse.example.com` or `forum.example.com` is a more futureproof approach?
2. If so, I assume changing that address is easy to do, or is that done as part of the one-time install?
Thanks
Dan
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-domain-and-hosting/30626/4 "2015-08-15T19:51:01Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> All you need for the $99 one-time, self-supported install is a domain name.
And a POP account for your discourse to poll for emails (if you want to enable topic creation and/or reply by email.)
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-domain-and-hosting/30626/5 "2015-08-15T19:52:58Z")
Changing the hostname of my hosted discourse was a fairly seamless process, initiated by an email from me to [team@discourse.org](mailto:team@discourse.org)
If you’re just doing the one-time setup, the act of changing that later will be totally on you, but it’s really no big deal.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-domain-and-hosting/30626/6 "2015-08-15T20:01:18Z")
> [@carninglipartners](#):
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> In your comment above, do you mean that an address like [discourse.example.com](http://discourse.example.com) or [forum.example.com](http://forum.example.com) is a more futureproof approach?
Yes, I do mean that. And have the root URL and www redirect to it.