# People with experience, Bitnami vs Communiteq? :S
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-with-experience-bitnami-vs-communiteq-s/15156
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [29.Апрель.2014 12:04:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-with-experience-bitnami-vs-communiteq-s/15156 "2014-04-29T12:04:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@CleverMoniker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CleverMoniker)
#### Post date: [29.Апрель.2014 12:04:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-with-experience-bitnami-vs-communiteq-s/15156/1 "2014-04-29T12:04:12Z")
Okay, so I’ve pretty much settled on using Discourse for a planned forum I intend on making. I have friends who will be joining and hopefully, within a few years, be a fairly strong community.
Here’s the thing, I don’t get it. I mean, I get Discourse, and it’s freakin’ awesome. I just don’t get “cloud”, “hosting”, and “servers” etc.
[Communiteq](https://www.communiteq.com) (formerly DiscourseHosting) has prices on what seems like page views and various features…
> **[Discourse Hosting Plans and Pricing - Communiteq](https://www.communiteq.com/discoursehosting/pricing/)**
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> We can host your forum in the United States (Washington D.C.) or in the European Union (Frankfurt, Germany). We use ISO27001 certified data centers. Our EU hosting is GDPR compliant.
Bitnami mentions nothing of the like, rather, you pay for servers…
Yet, both do something very similar???
I guess I’m looking for someone to please explain the difference here, cause I just don’t get it.
Cheers,
Clever Moniker
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### Author:  [@mlapida](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mlapida)
#### Post date: [29.Апрель.2014 12:17:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-with-experience-bitnami-vs-communiteq-s/15156/2 "2014-04-29T12:17:40Z")
If you aren’t familiar with “cloud” hosting, or even managing a Linux server, you should stick with [Communiteq](https://www.communiteq.com) (formerly DiscourseHosting). Bitnami requires some maintenance on your part; things like applying server updates and securing the OS. [Communiteq](https://www.communiteq.com) (formerly DiscourseHosting) is more of a Saas model.
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### Author:  [@CleverMoniker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CleverMoniker)
#### Post date: [29.Апрель.2014 12:22:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-with-experience-bitnami-vs-communiteq-s/15156/3 "2014-04-29T12:22:34Z")
Thank you!! 😄
May I ask, what is the “page views” referring to?? How would I possibly estimate how much taffic my forum gets?? I’m running everything myself, so I’d be concerned to somehow get too much, and have to pay through the roof or something.
I guess what I am asking is, is 200,000 page views (there $20 per mth option) a lot?
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### Author:  [@mlapida](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mlapida)
#### Post date: [29.Апрель.2014 12:29:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-with-experience-bitnami-vs-communiteq-s/15156/4 "2014-04-29T12:29:43Z")
It’s a pretty hefty amount for a new community. After you get your initial site configured, you’ll want to add [Google Analytics](http://www.google.com/analytics/) or some other tracking tool to the instance. This will give you insight into traffic patterns and trends and should make that 200,000 number a bit more clear.
You can always upgrade later, as your community grows.
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### Author:  [@CleverMoniker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CleverMoniker)
#### Post date: [29.Апрель.2014 12:48:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-with-experience-bitnami-vs-communiteq-s/15156/5 "2014-04-29T12:48:45Z")
You’re helping me out big time man. 😄
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [29.Апрель.2014 14:37:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-with-experience-bitnami-vs-communiteq-s/15156/6 "2014-04-29T14:37:35Z")
The easy answer: if you don’t know how much page views you’re getting, you are below 200,000.
We’ll notify you waaay in advance before you even start getting close to those 200,000 views, and it’s not a hard limit. We NEVER bill you for a higher plan unless you explicitly upgraded.
Not to shamelessly plug our solution, but we pretty frequently migrate very frustrated Bitnami users to our platform.
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### Author:  [@CleverMoniker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CleverMoniker)
#### Post date: [29.Апрель.2014 15:34:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-with-experience-bitnami-vs-communiteq-s/15156/7 "2014-04-29T15:34:04Z")
I have been trying out your site. Love it, and I’m almost fully signed up brother… Just sent you an email to sort out any potential “problems” (which I highly doubt there be any tbh) 😄
Tried Bitnami, try only gave me a 1hr trial!!! ☹ Can’t get anything done in 1hr!!! I’m not a ninja. lol
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### Author:  [@SneakySly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SneakySly)
#### Post date: [29.Апрель.2014 18:44:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-with-experience-bitnami-vs-communiteq-s/15156/8 "2014-04-29T18:44:09Z")
At [http://forum.stimhack.com/](http://forum.stimhack.com/) we migrated from BitNami to [Communiteq](https://www.communiteq.com) (formerly DiscourseHosting). We have a lot less headaches now, and DH has provided great support. I would recommend them.