# Docker for development vs the rails server + ember

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**Created:** [October 1, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-for-development-vs-the-rails-server-ember/280661 "2023-10-01T11:51:30Z")\
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As Robert said, since you don’t want to do development of plugins and your goal is just to get a site up and running, you want to do a [Standard Install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) (easiest is to just spin up an EC2 with 2GB of RAM and 40GB of disk–you can get by with less, but I don’t recommend it). This will also let you get stuff like DNS and social logins and so on configured, which you can’t do on a development install.

But you can make a backup of your development site and restore it to the production one.

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