These are the technical requirements which must be met so that your Dolphin powered online community or social network will run smoothly.

• Linux/Unix (Red Hat, Debian, FreeBSD, etc.) or Windows OS
• Apache Web Server
• Ability to run executable files (necessary for ffmpeg.exe)
• Ability to set Cron Jobs
• MySQL 4.1.2 and higher
• 20MB of disk space and 1MB of MySQL DB space for installation
• 8MB of disk space and 50KB of MySQL DB space for an average user
• PHP 4.3.6 and higher
  • safe_mode must be Off
  • exec() must be allowed
  • allow_url_fopen also must be On
  • mbstring, domxml and xsl extensions (required to run Orca forum and UTF-8 support)
• GD library compiled with TrueType fonts (for photo processing) or ImageMagick as an alternative
• Sendmail or Postfix
• root SSH access (necessary for Ray Media Server installation)

The last requirements implies Dolphin can be installed only on a VPS or VDS server. However there are a few web hosting companies which will install Dolphin for free on a shared hosting environment, for example ImageLeet.