diff --git a/lib/docker.ts b/lib/docker.ts
index 76e71720..d8d3f0d3 100644
--- a/lib/docker.ts
+++ b/lib/docker.ts
@@ -173,14 +173,25 @@ export async function startNextcloud(branch = 'master', mountApp: boolean|string
 		const container = await docker.createContainer({
 			Image: SERVER_IMAGE,
 			name: getContainerName(),
-			Env: [`BRANCH=${branch}`],
+			Env: [`BRANCH=${branch}`, 'APCU=1'],
 			HostConfig: {
 				Binds: mounts.length > 0 ? mounts : undefined,
 				PortBindings,
+				// Mount data directory in RAM for faster IO
+				Mounts: [{
+					Target: '/var/www/html/data',
+					Source: '',
+					Type: 'tmpfs',
+					ReadOnly: false,
+				}],
 			},
 		})
 		await container.start()
 
+		// Set proper permissions for the data folder
+		await runExec(container, ['chown', '-R', 'www-data:www-data', '/var/www/html/data'], false, 'root')
+		await runExec(container, ['chmod', '0770', '/var/www/html/data'], false, 'root')
+
 		// Get container's IP
 		const ip = await getContainerIP(container)
 		console.log(`├─ Nextcloud container's IP is ${ip} 🌏`)
@@ -217,6 +228,19 @@ export const configureNextcloud = async function(apps = ['viewer'], vendoredBran
 	await runExec(container, ['php', 'occ', 'config:system:set', 'force_locale', '--value', 'en_US'], true)
 	await runExec(container, ['php', 'occ', 'config:system:set', 'enforce_theme', '--value', 'light'], true)
 
+	// Checking apcu
+	console.log('├─ Checking APCu configuration... 👀')
+	const distributed = await runExec(container, ['php', 'occ', 'config:system:get', 'memcache.distributed'])
+	const local = await runExec(container, ['php', 'occ', 'config:system:get', 'memcache.local'])
+	const hashing = await runExec(container, ['php', 'occ', 'config:system:get', 'hashing_default_password'])
+	if (!distributed.includes('Memcache\\APCu')
+		|| !local.includes('Memcache\\APCu')
+		|| !hashing.includes('true')) {
+		console.log('└─ APCu is not properly configured 🛑')
+		throw new Error('APCu is not properly configured')
+	}
+	console.log('│  └─ OK !')
+
 	// Build app list
 	const json = await runExec(container, ['php', 'occ', 'app:list', '--output', 'json'], false)
 	// fix dockerode bug returning invalid leading characters