# Which performance is better if discourse or phpbb hosts on a same vps?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
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**Created:** [Mars 20, 2015, 12:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-performance-is-better-if-discourse-or-phpbb-hosts-on-a-same-vps/26556 "2015-03-20T00:25:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [Mars 20, 2015, 4:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-performance-is-better-if-discourse-or-phpbb-hosts-on-a-same-vps/26556/2 "2015-03-20T04:52:19Z")

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Hard to say, since we are comparing apples and oranges here. As an older project, phpBB will be less resource intensive than Discourse so it might fit in 512mb or even 256mb of RAM. That’s all I can think of as a practical point of comparison.

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