Folks, I’ve seen the question a few times, but really haven’t seen any good answers… How does one scale and make Discourse highly available? Like, how can I setup a PGSQL cluster, and have a bunch of web “front-ends” talking to the cluster, and storing data on a shared NFS for the web front-ends? …

This is covered in the advanced install instructions. Basically a lot more Docker containers, broken down per service (web/sql/redis), and in front of a load balancer.

Thanks Jeff, I’ll give it a read again, but it wasn’t clear to me the first time through how to separate all the pieces to scale it. Tom

Hi Tom, You have rails on the front-end, redis, sidekiq, and postgres. nginx/rails can be hosted on multiple servers. With redis you would have to scale the server out, or create multiple instances with replication. This would require some archectual changes to discourse but you could also p…

[image] rubydoob: where is that advanced install page? Here you go: discourse_docker/README.md at master · discourse/discourse_docker · GitHub

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Here you go: discourse_docker/README.md at master · discourse/discourse_docker · GitHub

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