We’ve been running our Discourse instance for a few months on forum.hobbydb.com now to support our growing collectible database with a community (replacing various Facebook groups). While everything is functionally stable, we’ve noticed some performance issues — particularly around Lighthouse scores…

Hi there, I’m just wondering, are the pages loading quite slowly for users? Or is it just the metrics showing less performance?

It is user experience and varies a lot, sometimes the speed is acceptable, sometimes it might take 20 sec for the page to load.

Could it be a case of a network issue, like the server being hosted elsewhere?

Yes your instance is very slow. That’s not typical. Bitnami is a non-standard third party install. Have you raised these issues in their community? Some of these online benches don’t make sense for a Single Page App (like Discourse) because each client downloads most of the JavaScript on first v…

[afbeelding] hobbyDB: Any recommendations, tips, or known pitfalls we should look into? [afbeelding] Bitnami installations are unsupported Self-Hosting Community support is only provided for installs that use the official instructions: discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.m…

Our infra is on Azure and region is US. So it should be much of a problem.

I guess now switching to a standard install is even more necessary. [afbeelding] Bitnami Discourse container image is deprecated Hosting Looks like that after Bitnami was aquired by Broadcom, images such as Discourse Bitnami won’t be updated anymore. See Upcoming changes …

It’s absolutely possible to get good performance for Discourse on K8 and Bitnami. [afbeelding] hobbyDB: MS Azure 2xlarge (so should be able to automatically expand to 6 core. For Discourse (or any RoR app) the single core speed is more important. Scaling is more important once your forum get…

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Ondersteuning Installatie

NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) 6 juli 2025 om 02:25 4

Zou het een netwerkprobleem kunnen zijn, bijvoorbeeld dat de server ergens anders wordt gehost?

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Intermittent slow page load times Support unsupported-install	2	872	7 januari 2022
Problem with a new Discourse installation Self-hosting unsupported-install	2	1063	4 maart 2022
Are there any commands that will speed up the site? Support	19	2269	2 december 2020
Extreme Slow page loading (more than 1 minute to load) Support	9	797	19 september 2020
Azure self hosting Discourse packaged by Bitnami? Self-hosting unsupported-install	3	610	22 november 2023

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