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

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-performance-is-better-if-discourse-or-phpbb-hosts-on-a-same-vps/26556>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [March 20, 2015, 12:25am 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:** ![doudou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@doudou](https://meta.discourse.org/u/doudou)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-performance-is-better-if-discourse-or-phpbb-hosts-on-a-same-vps/26556/6 "2015-03-20T15:08:22Z")

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I had installed phpbb before. Discourse seems better except email setting. In phpbb, you just need fill in smtp, username and passwd, then it works. In the beginning, I can’t receive confirm email from discourse, bother me some. Then I got a broken site.

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