# Does discourse have a cache?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 27, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-have-a-cache/112698 "2019-03-27T13:08:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-have-a-cache/112698/4 "2019-03-28T02:43:59Z")

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No, because Discourse is for the most part serving dynamic content. Varnish as in in-memory cache of _static_ content makes no sense here.

> [@Tungki\_Reza\_Prasakti](#):
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> Oh so all our asset on forum are being hosted on cdn not on our local host?

That depends, if you’re self-hosting have you configured one?

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