How does Discourse host Discourse?

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Discourse team, can you please share how you host Discourse installations for your clients? Do you provision a separate VM for each client? Do you use Docker at all?

https://payments.discourse.org/buy/

(If you don’t want to share your secret sauce that’s totally understandable.)

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@sam mentioned the following in the passing:

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Yes, we use Docker to host our customers and all our hosting is Docker based. At the enterprise level, they get dedicated containers.

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Also it’s worth mentioning that no client, whether multiple per container or isolated exists on a single server. There’s always at least one more container on a different physical server serving up your application.

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Also, pretty interesting and relevant, from internal analysis of our NGINX logs and and NGINX logs on another Digital Ocean instance of similar size (using NGINX analyze) we clock 2.7x to 3.5x faster server speeds than Digital Ocean.

So, if you want the fastest Discourse out there, your best bet is to host with us.

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