# Discourse High Availability

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-high-availability/55091>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [January 3, 2017, 7:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-high-availability/55091 "2017-01-03T07:58:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![jakimfett](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jakimfett/32/65817_2.png) [@jakimfett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jakimfett)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 7:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-high-availability/55091/1 "2017-01-03T07:58:36Z")

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Has anyone played with a HAProxy/nginx/etc?

I could have sworn there was a how-to guide for a way to do distributed hosting, either via Docker or via multiple instances of Discourse all hitting a single high availability database server, but I can’t seem to find a guide for it.

Any thoughts? I’m currently serving a small single Discourse site, but am interested in learning as much as I can about scaling and load balancing of Discourse.

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