From the developers' INSTALL file: "Hosting Rails applications is complicated. Even if you already have Postgres, Redis and Ruby installed on your server, you

From the developers' INSTALL file: "Hosting Rails applications is complicated. Even if you already have Postgres, Redis and Ruby installed on your server, you still need to worry about running and monitoring your Sidekiq and Rails processes. Additionally, our Docker install comes bundled with a web-based GUI that makes upgrading to new versions of Discourse as easy as clicking a button." The basic install guide is a bit lengthy, but amounts to writing these commands: ssh root@machine.address.of.choice wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh mkdir /var/discourse git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/discourse cd /var/discourse cp samples/standalone.yml containers/app.yml nano containers/app.yml ./launcher bootstrap app ./launcher start app There's definitely some extra configuration that has to take place between these steps, but it seems to me that they've gone through a lot of trouble to make it easy for their users. I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that it requires an expert to install Discourse -- it only requires one when you have a very unconventional build toolchain on your Linux box and refuse to use Docker (the officially supported deployment method).