# Discourse + web server. Possible or better to avoid?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-web-server-possible-or-better-to-avoid/157489
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [July 12, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-web-server-possible-or-better-to-avoid/157489 "2020-07-12T04:58:11Z")
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### Author: ![OrbitStorm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/orbitstorm/32/186582_2.png) [@OrbitStorm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OrbitStorm)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2020, 6:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-web-server-possible-or-better-to-avoid/157489/3 "2020-07-12T06:49:39Z")

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Is this a recommendation to switch to Nginx then? I have absolutely no experience with it and any web server I’ve ever used, preconfigured included, has used Apache.

There’s also this for Apache: [Set up Discourse on a server with existing Apache sites](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-up-discourse-on-a-server-with-existing-apache-sites/30013)

However, there appears to be a large number of issues getting it to work properly, particularly with SSL.

Would it be simpler to run two droplets, one for the website and one specifically for Discourse? I suppose I could just change the DNS record for the subdomain to point to the Discourse droplet and that should resolve the issue. Just find it odd to run two servers for a forum.

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