# 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:** [Juin 30, 2015, 9:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-domain-and-hosting/30626 "2015-06-30T09:14:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![carninglipartners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@carninglipartners](https://meta.discourse.org/u/carninglipartners)\
**Post date:** [Août 15, 2015, 2:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/one-time-install-domain-and-hosting/30626/3 "2015-08-15T14:19:46Z")

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> [@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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