Developing on Windows requires some special setup to get good response times. Unfortunately performance across file systems is not great for WSL2 and recieving inotify events isn't possible. This leads to an all-around unpleasant experience. Read more about this [here](https://docs.docker.com/desktop/windows/wsl/#best-practices).
To mitigate this you can install a WSL distribution and clone the project inside there. Executing docker inside the container will still work, without directly accessing the host. Access the code with [Remote Development for VSCode](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack) or simply use the network address `\\wsl$`.
1. To confirm the installation worked, open the web browser of your choice and enter `http://localhost:3000` into the address bar and see if the website loads correctly. An admin account has been created automatically, the username and password are `admin` and `e621test` respectively.
The postgres server accepts outside connections which you can use to access it with a local client. Use `localhost:34517` to connect to a database named `e621_development` with the user `e621`. Leave the password blank, anything will work.
Running a single machine install in production is possible, but is likely to be somewhat sluggish due to contention in disk between postgresql and opensearch.
If you are targeting more than a hundred thousand posts and reasonable user volumes, you probably want to procure yourself a database server. See tuning guides for postgresql and opensearch for help planning these requirements.
