# Starting a second Discourse forum on the same VPS

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-a-second-discourse-forum-on-the-same-vps/67160
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [31 Luglio 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-a-second-discourse-forum-on-the-same-vps/67160 "2017-07-31T11:29:57Z")
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### Author: ![\_vincent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/_vincent/32/119557_2.png) [@\_vincent](https://meta.discourse.org/u/_vincent)
#### Post date: [31 Luglio 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-a-second-discourse-forum-on-the-same-vps/67160/3 "2017-07-31T11:39:33Z")

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According to this answer (which might be outdated) it appears like running Discourse on a non-standard port is not the prettiest way:

> [@How to specify a different port (not 80) during installation?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-specify-a-different-port-not-80-during-installation/47859/3):
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> Just bear in mind that running on a different port that 80 and 443 isn’t really supported, and there will be some things broken. If you really need to reuse the server you can set nginx in front to proxy request between discourse and he other site. There’s an #howto for that.

But anyway, why not.

Thanks a lot for your answer and for bringing up Caddy, I never heard of it. Anyone interested, DO wrote a howto:

> **[How To Host a Website with Caddy on Ubuntu 16.04 | DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-host-a-website-with-caddy-on-ubuntu-16-04)**
>
> Caddy is a web server that was created with ease of use in mind. It’s become a common choice for developers who want to quickly r…

**Edit :** in addition, it seems like Ubuntu 16.04 users have to enable systemd-networkd service first.

```
sudo systemctl enable systemd-networkd
sudo systemctl start systemd-networkd

```

In this case @pfaffman, should I disable ssl and letsencrypt in app.yml?

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