# 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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> [@Assma](#):
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> does Discourse propose such solution where both web-services and DBs are replicated inside containers?

There are a bunch of ways to deal with postgres failover. You can use whatever you like.

> [@Assma](#):
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> What are Discourse experts and community recommendations?

CDCK hosting uses HA-proxy, last I thought I knew. You can use any load balancer you like and (mostly) use `/srv/status` as a ready indicator.

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