# Installation Help required **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-help-required/93371 **Category:** Self-hosting **Created:** [July 28, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-help-required/93371 "2018-07-28T17:27:19Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma) #### Post date: [July 30, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-help-required/93371/7 "2018-07-30T08:13:47Z")
I don’t think that would be the case! On the contrary, there’s a considerable amount of added performance by running data separately. There are even tutorials about it: > [@Configure Discourse to use a separate PostgreSQL server](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-discourse-with-a-separate-postgresql-server/46375): > > Let’s say you’re using AWS RDS, or an existing PostgreSQL server managed elsewhere. It’s fairly straightforward to get Discourse to use such a setup, without needing to grant superuser privileges to anything that Discourse itself runs. Here’s how. Prerequisites Discourse requires PostgreSQL’s major version to [match what we ship with in our docker images](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/main/image/base/Dockerfile#L37); if you try to run on a newer or older version, it might work, but we don’t guarantee it, and if something breaks in the future, you get to … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-help-required/93371)._