I don't know why it's so hard to find the hosting requirements. Where are they. They should be on the home page.
They are in the Learning Center where all of the tutorials are found.
On the front page of the Learning Center:
Which only takes two clicks to get to. https://socialengine.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SU/pages/81788966/SE+PHP+-+SocialEngine+Requirements and that is the updated link in case you want to bookmark it .