# How to scale discourse?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [21. September 2014 um 19:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-scale-discourse/20299 "2014-09-21T19:10:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [21. September 2014 um 19:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-scale-discourse/20299/2 "2014-09-21T19:23:06Z")

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This is covered in the advanced install instructions. Basically a lot more Docker containers, broken down per service (web/sql/redis), and in front of a load balancer.

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