# Which performance is better if discourse or phpbb hosts on a same vps? **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Tags:** hosting\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![elberet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elberet/32/122404_2.png) [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)\ **Post date:** [Mars 20, 2015, 2:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-performance-is-better-if-discourse-or-phpbb-hosts-on-a-same-vps/26556/5 "2015-03-20T14:59:16Z")
PhpBB doesn’t use Redis, MySQL has a smaller footprint than PostgreSQL and the overhead incurred by running a docker container is negligible. Configuring phpBB on a VPS is probably a bit harder than installing a single Discourse instance. A tool à la Discourse’s docker launcher doesn’t exist, so at best you could get an Apache-MySQL-PHP (or Nginx-MySQL-PHP) stack as a Docker container which leaves you with the usual task of uploading phpBB’s files to your server by FTP, creating a database user and managing passwords and copying all that info into phpBB’s setup script… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-performance-is-better-if-discourse-or-phpbb-hosts-on-a-same-vps/26556)._