# High-CPU / High memory on fresh discourse install **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/high-cpu-high-memory-on-fresh-discourse-install/99699 **Category:** Self-hosting **Tags:** server-resources **Created:** [17.Октябрь.2018 01:48:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/high-cpu-high-memory-on-fresh-discourse-install/99699 "2018-10-17T01:48:47Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![bkraul](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bkraul/32/114239_2.png) [@bkraul](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bkraul) #### Post date: [17.Октябрь.2018 10:14:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/high-cpu-high-memory-on-fresh-discourse-install/99699/5 "2018-10-17T10:14:51Z")
Bhanu: 1. I am using a reverse proxy network because it is recommended as optimal for using the proxy container that I run all of my solutions with. 2. As mentioned in my original post, I am using jwilder/reverse proxy, which uses the VIRTUAL\_HOST env variable to proxy the web traffic based on host name. This has been extensively talked about here at meta, and it works quite well. I have no issues with that part. More about that here: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-letsencrypt-ssl-in-multi-site-setup/50235/10](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-letsencrypt-ssl-in-multi-site-setup/50235/10) One of the biggest questions I have about having to run Discourse on a separate machine is, why docker, then? The other thing… The minimal resource requirement is 1GB. I can’t for the life of me understand why 4GB or even 8GB would not be enough, for operation in a shared container environment. This is an on-premises ESXi vm setup, sure, I could create a separate virtual machine for this… But the question remains…why docker, then? I am assuming that by “my configuration” you mean my docker version, host OS etc (since I posted my app.yml config already). It is as follows: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS x64 Docker-ce 18.06.1-ce --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/high-cpu-high-memory-on-fresh-discourse-install/99699)._