# Performance, Scaling, and HA requirements

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-scaling-and-ha-requirements/60098>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [March 29, 2017, 12:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-scaling-and-ha-requirements/60098 "2017-03-29T12:49:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![mdekkers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mdekkers/32/121115_2.png) [@mdekkers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mdekkers)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 6:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performance-scaling-and-ha-requirements/60098/4 "2017-03-31T06:42:00Z")

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Hi Matt, thanks for your reply. I’m fairly familiar with scaling, loadbalancing, and implementing HA. I’m after some idea of what it will take, in terms of resource, to provide a fast user experience. I’m not a big fan of running interconnected Docker containers in prod. My experience has shown flaky and poorly performing networking, as well as issues with storage, especially for DB. I’d much prefer to be able to deploy without docker, but it appears to be “unsupported”.

As much as I like Discourse, I’m not yet convinced that it makes a good fit for us.

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