# Why Discourse can be only installed from SSH?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-discourse-can-be-only-installed-from-ssh/93350>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [July 28, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-discourse-can-be-only-installed-from-ssh/93350 "2018-07-28T09:35:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-discourse-can-be-only-installed-from-ssh/93350/7 "2018-07-28T13:31:30Z")

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That’s done as part of the script. It uses its own dedicated instance fo a PostgreSQL database.

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