# Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-hosting-providers-for-self-hosters/79562 **Category:** Sysadmins **Tags:** hosting **Created:** [February 1, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-hosting-providers-for-self-hosters/79562 "2018-02-01T18:57:31Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 19
### Author: ![smileypants707](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/smileypants707/32/129984_2.png) [@smileypants707](https://meta.discourse.org/u/smileypants707) #### Post date: [October 25, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-hosting-providers-for-self-hosters/79562/19 "2019-10-25T19:16:30Z")
Forgive me if this seems like a silly question, I definitely fall under this category: > [@pfaffman](#): > > people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. I don’t know what I’m doiiiing! 😫 My head is spinning from even the minimal amount of info I’ve read here on meta! **Does Digital Ocean offer in-house server maintenance, management and backups?** I’m referring to [this post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/basic-installation-question/105992/3) from a different topic. Like, will those services be included in my plan if I self host with DO? Or will I have to seek someone like “Literate Computing, LLC” to help me manage my server instance with DO? This whole realm of self hosting is completely mysterious to me, but I’d like to give it an honest consideration so I can confidently make a hosting decision by weighing the major pros/cons of Discourse hosting vs self hosting for my specific situation. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-hosting-providers-for-self-hosters/79562)._