# Chat Plugin: Performance at Scale - Disabling Retention & Heavy API Use?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-plugin-performance-at-scale-disabling-retention-heavy-api-use/377186>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** chat\
**Created:** [August 4, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-plugin-performance-at-scale-disabling-retention-heavy-api-use/377186 "2025-08-04T11:25:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nima1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nima1/32/299628_2.png) [@Nima1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nima1)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-plugin-performance-at-scale-disabling-retention-heavy-api-use/377186/10 "2025-08-07T07:29:55Z")

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Hi, thanks for the quick reply and for checking with the team!

To answer your question: yes, we are self-hosting. I have already set up the instance.

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