# Serious Performance Issues!

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/serious-performance-issues/191663>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** unsupported-install\
**Created:** [May 26, 2021, 7:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serious-performance-issues/191663 "2021-05-26T07:26:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 11:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serious-performance-issues/191663/2 "2021-05-26T11:20:52Z")

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> [@Ibrahim\_salem](#):
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> I configured my nginx for optimal performance, I have a 8 cores machine with 32G Ram, puma is configured with 6 workers and 8,16 threads … postgres is also configured for optimal machine limits … and the load barely exceeds 0.5 (when using htop) … yet randomly some pages take 4-5 seconds even more to load … ☹

You might want to consider switching to the [official install method](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md).

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