# My Discourse website is very slow to load the first time

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-discourse-website-is-very-slow-to-load-the-first-time/388700
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [November 17, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-discourse-website-is-very-slow-to-load-the-first-time/388700 "2025-11-17T14:20:32Z")
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### 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: [November 17, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-discourse-website-is-very-slow-to-load-the-first-time/388700/2 "2025-11-17T14:50:39Z")

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Ideally you shouldn’t be using any “panel” on the server you use to host discourse.

Your VPS provider is likely over provisioning their resources and that is the likely reason for the slow load, another contributor could be slow or congested network at your provider’s end or ISP’s end.

Subsequent loads are fast because the resources have already been downloaded, the app only needs small payloads to refresh the latest data. This is the beauty of discourse.

Some mitigations may include the following:

1. Try a different VPS provider
2. Consider adding CDN Acceleration to discourse

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