# How good is Self-Hosted Discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-good-is-self-hosted-discourse/279542>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [September 20, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-good-is-self-hosted-discourse/279542 "2023-09-20T01:50:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shaneod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shaneod](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shaneod)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-good-is-self-hosted-discourse/279542/7 "2023-09-20T13:35:26Z")

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> [@marianord](#):
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> I would say that most Discourse instances are self-hosted. It’s as good as you set it up, the software is amazing and almost without glitches so most of the issues are more on a reliability or keeping it up to date and working and that’s 100% on you.
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> You will need to setup or ponder if you need a CDN, external storage, latency of storage, CPU and RAM, etc. With the hosted version you have all that sorted out.

Yeah, I’ve been running a [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) by the good people at Discourse on Digital Ocean for 7 years without any issues, hit a slight slowdown there recently but it turns out that my database is north of 20GB in size! … a bit of help from @pfaffman and we’re ticking along nicely now again.

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