# Merging multiple containers into one
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-multiple-containers-into-one/63081
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [May 21, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-multiple-containers-into-one/63081 "2017-05-21T00:46:16Z")
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### Author:  [@averymd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/averymd)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-multiple-containers-into-one/63081/1 "2017-05-21T00:46:16Z")
When I started my Discourse site a few years ago, I was overly ambitious and split web, data, and redis into three containers on three DigitalOcean VPSes. They’re using `link` to communicate on a private network and SSL is in place. It’s a standard multi-container setup, per the instructions + forum posts.
I’d like to merge these now into a single standalone container while retaining all data. Is this possible?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-multiple-containers-into-one/63081/2 "2017-05-21T01:21:50Z")
I would imagine the easiest solution to be to put the site in read-only mode. Back it up. Create a new droplet, install Discourse, then restore the backup.
Then dispose of the initial three droplets.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-multiple-containers-into-one/63081/3 "2024-06-08T12:44:48Z")
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