• MetaLIMS v2.0 Hosted Installation (via AWS Lightsail) - Suggests the use of AWS Lightsail for web-hosting and use of easy to run bash scripts to pair with Amazon pre-configured AMI's to quickly and easily deploy MetaLIMS. AWS Lighsail is a low-cost web-host which also offers 1-month free trial for testing

• Note: Authors do not endorse AWS LightSail but suggest it due to Amazon's pervasive name, competitive prices, and free one-month trial. Other popular hosting systems include DigitalOcean, Bluehost, and Linode. MetaLIMS has currently been tested on AWS Lightsail, DigitalOcean, and self-hosted servers)

• MetaLIMS v2.0 Full Manual Installation - For experienced unix users and web-developers. Allows installation to be tailored to specific users' OS and application set-up and filesystem

Note: If full installation users are using Ubuntu 16, users can consider using our deployment bash scripts. Please reference use instructions from MetaLIMS v2.0 Hosted Installation (via AWS Lightsail) starting at 'Install Lamp Stack' to automate lamp installation and 'Install MetaLIMS' to automate MetaLIMS deployment. User must have sudo rights for install.