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@ -6,17 +6,20 @@ It is still early times for Discourse. From our FAQ:
> Please experiment with it, play with it, give us feedback, submit pull requests – but any consideration > Please experiment with it, play with it, give us feedback, submit pull requests – but any consideration
> of fully adopting Discourse is for people and organizations who are eager to live on the bleeding and broken edge. > of fully adopting Discourse is for people and organizations who are eager to live on the bleeding and broken edge.
Discourse has two fairly decent install documents now: Still interested?
- Our [**official install guide**][1] ### [**Official install guide**][1]
- [Unofficial Heroku install guide][2]
Beyond that, if you are feeling extra *extra* adventurous you'll need some server hardware: Alternately, you can try the [unofficial Heroku install guide][2], or the [BitNami Discourse Virtual Machine package][3].
No time to read all that? Here's the quick and dirty version.
### Hardware
- Dual core CPU recommended - Dual core CPU recommended
- 2 GB RAM recommended (1 GB can work, but you'll need swap..) - 2 GB RAM recommended (1 GB can work, but you'll need swap ..)
And you can try to set up following components manually on it: ### Software
1. **Postgres 9.1+** 1. **Postgres 9.1+**
- Enable support for HSTORE - Enable support for HSTORE
@ -34,14 +37,10 @@ And you can try to set up following components manually on it:
- Run a clockwork process for enqueing scheduled jobs - Run a clockwork process for enqueing scheduled jobs
- Run several Rails processes, preferably behind a proxy like Nginx. - Run several Rails processes, preferably behind a proxy like Nginx.
--- ### Low memory installs
# Low memory installs Remember you *will* need swap enabled and working! To reduce memory footprint, clockwork can run inside your web server, if you launch the your web server with `EMBED_CLOCKWORK=1`, clockwork will run in a backgroud thread. As clockwork itself only performs scheduling, it will have very little impact on performance.
- Clockwork can run inside your web server, if you launch the your web server with EMBED_CLOCKWORK=1,
clockwork will run in a backgroud thread. As clockwork itself only performs scheduling, it will have
very little impact on performance
[1]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-ubuntu.md [1]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-ubuntu.md
[2]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/HEROKU.md [2]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/HEROKU.md
[3]: http://bitnami.com/stack/discourse