# How does Discourse host Discourse?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-host-discourse/30292
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [June 21, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-host-discourse/30292 "2015-06-21T21:00:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@chuchuva](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chuchuva)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-host-discourse/30292/1 "2015-06-21T21:00:15Z")
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?
> **[Discourse pricing](https://discourse.org/pricing)**
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> Official Discourse hosting plans for communities of every size.
(If you don’t want to share your secret sauce that’s totally understandable.)
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### Author:  [@chuchuva](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chuchuva)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-host-discourse/30292/2 "2015-06-21T21:22:23Z")
@sam mentioned the following in the [passing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-you-hide-the-miniprofiler/5304/9):
> [@sam](#):
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> … we host multiple sites from a single app
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-host-discourse/30292/3 "2015-06-22T02:27:18Z")
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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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-host-discourse/30292/4 "2015-06-22T14:58:50Z")
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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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-host-discourse/30292/5 "2015-06-22T20:47:12Z")
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](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/script/nginx_analyze.rb)) 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.