# OpenVZ or KVM on VPS?

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/openvz-or-kvm-on-vps/6244>\
**Category:** Installation\
**Created:** [March 14, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/openvz-or-kvm-on-vps/6244 "2019-03-14T15:15:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee59a6/32.png) [@Time](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Time)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/openvz-or-kvm-on-vps/6244/1 "2019-03-14T15:15:16Z")

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Hey gang.

Looking to move to a ghost from Wordpress for my main blog. I will be self hosting on a VPS. From what I can tell in the documentation, there is no need for a KVM VPS to run ghost? Is that correct?

I know with Discourse, a KVM VPS is needed due to the Docker requirements.

Cheers

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**Author:** ![vikaspotluri123](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/vikaspotluri123/32/24_2.png) [@vikaspotluri123](https://forum.ghost.org/u/vikaspotluri123)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/openvz-or-kvm-on-vps/6244/2 "2019-03-14T18:48:11Z")

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Hey there 👋

It shouldn’t really matter, as long as you can get MySQL, Node and NGINX installed, you should be fine. I don’t think any of the components are affected by the underlying virtualization tech is involved :)

If needed, here’s the step-by-step guide to install Ghost:

> **[How to install & setup Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 or 22.04](https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/)**
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> A full production install guide for how to install the Ghost professional publishing platform on a production server running Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 or 22.04.

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**Author:** ![Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee59a6/32.png) [@Time](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Time)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/openvz-or-kvm-on-vps/6244/3 "2019-03-14T19:05:30Z")

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Thanks - I will get a cheapie OVZ then. I have installed Ghost a bunch of times, so it should be straight forward assuming no virtualization checks in the installer.

Cheers,

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/openvz-or-kvm-on-vps/6244/4 "2019-03-28T19:05:32Z")

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