# Self hosting options
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-options/348592
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [January 23, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-options/348592 "2025-01-23T12:10:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Tarun\_Sharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tarun_Sharma)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-options/348592/1 "2025-01-23T12:10:57Z")
Can we use firebase as hosting options.And what are the best hosting options aws and google cloud.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-options/348592/2 "2025-01-23T12:19:06Z")
> [@Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-hosting-providers-for-self-hosters/79562):
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> This guide is intended for people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. This is a list of cloud hosting services that are believed to be reliable and easy enough for a novice to get up and running with as little fiddling as possible. You should be able to create an account, and a server on which to run your Discourse instance and still be able to pull the job off in very close to 30 minutes. I have installed Discourse on each of these, received an email from Di…
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### Author:  [@Tarun\_Sharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tarun_Sharma)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-options/348592/3 "2025-01-23T12:24:10Z")
Thank for replying but the guide doesn’t tell anything about firebase as a options and also not included the google cloud. I understand that these may not be the best options but I want to know that can we use them or not.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-options/348592/4 "2025-01-23T14:38:20Z")
Our [official install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) guide lists the requirements to host Discourse. If Firebase supports the listed requirements and allows SSH access, it can run Discourse:
> - modern single core CPU, dual core recommended
> - 1 GB RAM minimum
> - 64 bit Linux compatible with Docker
> - 10 GB disk space minimum
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-options/348592/5 "2025-01-23T15:53:01Z")
I added this section:
> [@Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-hosting-providers-for-self-hosters/79562/1):
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> ### What about OtherGreatService?
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> > [@awesomerobot](#):
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> > Our [official install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) guide lists the requirements to host Discourse. If OtherGreatService supports the listed requirements and allows SSH access, it can run Discourse:
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> > > - modern single core CPU, dual core recommended
> > > - 1 GB RAM minimum
> > > - 64 bit Linux compatible with Docker
> > > - 10 GB disk space minimum
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-options/348592/6 "2025-01-23T23:41:31Z")
IIRC Firebase hosting is serverless, so it won’t work with Discourse.