# Serverless Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/serverless-discourse/103726>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** unsupported-install\
**Created:** [December 7, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serverless-discourse/103726 "2018-12-07T19:37:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serverless-discourse/103726/2 "2018-12-07T19:52:50Z")

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Serverless just means “running on someone else’s server”. Kind of like [calling takeout kitchenless](https://twitter.com/secvalve/status/869667790034059264).

In this case what serverless means is that you as the application owner don’t need to _think about the server_ - the first example that comes to mind is probably [Google App Engine](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/).

While it may be _possible_ with a lot of effort, Discourse isn’t expected to run this way and we don’t support it.

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