# Site not showing after following official installation walkthrough
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-not-showing-after-following-official-installation-walkthrough/147734
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [April 12, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-not-showing-after-following-official-installation-walkthrough/147734 "2020-04-12T20:59:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Joe\_Perkins](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Joe_Perkins)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-not-showing-after-following-official-installation-walkthrough/147734/1 "2020-04-12T20:59:28Z")
Hey guys, really excited to get set up with Discourse, but run into a problem whereby my site just doesn’t load.
I have followed [this walkthrough on Discourse GH](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md) to set up using Digital Ocean.
The domain I am using was purchased and managed at GoDaddy, and currently it is displaying a site hosted on Webflow. I created a subdomain on the godaddy site by adding an A-Name record that points to my DO Droplet **ipv4** address.
When I run ./discourse-setup, I answer all of the required settings, and skip the LET’S ENCRYPT email.
Everything appears to run through over the course of 5-10 minutes, with no errors, however once the script has finished, and I navigate to my subdomain address, it seems to redirect it to a different IP address (not the DO droplet id), saying it cannot be reached.
Any help on this would be massively appreciated, the subdomain I am trying to set up is talk.landscape.ventures
Thanks in advance
---
### Author:  [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-not-showing-after-following-official-installation-walkthrough/147734/2 "2020-04-12T22:18:48Z")
It would seem `talk` subdomain is not created (yet?).
I would double-check first on GoDaddy that everything is configured/saved as expected.
If so, it could also simply means that you have to wait until the DNS is propagated, but I don’t think that is the issue here. Because we should already see responses from different servers and currently `talk` doesn’t exist.
---
### Author:  [@Joe\_Perkins](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Joe_Perkins)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-not-showing-after-following-official-installation-walkthrough/147734/3 "2020-04-13T19:28:09Z")
Thanks for your response, I really appreciate it.
In the end this was being caused by 2 issues:
1. My droplet size being only 1GB not 2GB
2. My SMTP account hadn’t been set up properly with SendInBlue. As soon as I switched to Mailgun which gave me an instant SMTP address, Discourse ended up installing correctly.
---
### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-not-showing-after-following-official-installation-walkthrough/147734/4 "2020-04-13T19:53:59Z")
1GB is fine providing you configure swap. RAM isn’t a problem.
---
### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-not-showing-after-following-official-installation-walkthrough/147734/5 "2020-05-13T19:54:07Z")
This topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.