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# Discourse "Quick-and-Dirty" Install Guide
# Discourse Install Guide
It is still early times for Discourse. From our FAQ:
It is still early times for Discourse. From [our FAQ](http://www.discourse.org/faq/):
> Discourse is brand new. Discourse is early beta software, and likely to remain so for many months.
> Please experiment with it, play with it, give us feedback, submit pull requests but any consideration
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Still interested?
### [**Official install guide**][1]
### [**Click here for the OFFICIAL INSTALL GUIDE**][1]
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.
## Quick and Dirty Install
### Hardware
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- Run a clockwork process for enqueing scheduled jobs
- Run several Rails processes, preferably behind a proxy like Nginx.
### Low memory installs
### Low memory (less than 2 GB)
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.