diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e8de2c6..bfc5b1b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1300,6 +1300,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "gcc"
+version = "0.3.55"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8f5f3913fa0bfe7ee1fd8248b6b9f42a5af4b9d65ec2dd2c3c26132b950ecfc2"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "generic-array"
 version = "0.12.3"
@@ -1676,6 +1682,7 @@ version = "0.8.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "370090ad578ba845a3ad4f383ceb3deba7abd51ab1915ad1f2c982cc6035e31c"
 dependencies = [
+ "gcc",
  "pkg-config",
  "vcpkg",
 ]
@@ -2183,6 +2190,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "diesel_migrations",
  "dotenv",
  "image",
+ "libsqlite3-sys",
  "qrcode",
  "rand 0.8.3",
  "rpassword",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 608396f..8fbaccd 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ serde = "1.0"
 diesel = { version = "1.4", features = ["sqlite", "chrono"] }
 diesel_codegen = { version = "0.16.1", features = ["sqlite"] }
 diesel_migrations = "1.4"
+libsqlite3-sys = { version = "*", features = ["bundled"] }
 dotenv = "0.10.1"
 actix-identity = "0.3"
 chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["serde"] }
@@ -36,4 +37,9 @@ rpassword = "5.0"
 clap = "2.33"
 
 [build-dependencies]
-actix-web-static-files = { git = "https://github.com/enaut/actix-web-static-files.git", branch = "enaut-must_use" }
\ No newline at end of file
+actix-web-static-files = { git = "https://github.com/enaut/actix-web-static-files.git", branch = "enaut-must_use" }
+
+# optimize for size at cost of compilation speed.
+[profile.release]
+#lto = true
+#codegen-units = 1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/cli.rs b/src/cli.rs
index a8bfe8d..05c432d 100644
--- a/src/cli.rs
+++ b/src/cli.rs
@@ -301,7 +301,8 @@ fn create_admin(config: &ServerConfig) -> Result<(), ServerError> {
 fn apply_migrations(config: &ServerConfig) -> Result<(), ServerError> {
     slog_info!(
         config.log,
-        "Creating a database file and running the migrations:"
+        "Creating a database file and running the migrations in the file {}:",
+        &config.db.display()
     );
     let connection = queries::establish_connection(&config.db)?;
     crate::embedded_migrations::run_with_output(&connection, &mut std::io::stdout())?;
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index a9566ba..2f38c20 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -186,6 +186,48 @@ impl ServerConfig {
 include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/generated.rs"));
 embed_migrations!("migrations/");
 
+fn build_tera() -> Tera {
+    let mut tera = Tera::default();
+
+    tera.add_raw_templates(vec![
+        ("admin.html", include_str!("../templates/admin.html")),
+        ("base.html", include_str!("../templates/base.html")),
+        (
+            "edit_link.html",
+            include_str!("../templates/edit_link.html"),
+        ),
+        (
+            "edit_profile.html",
+            include_str!("../templates/edit_profile.html"),
+        ),
+        (
+            "index_users.html",
+            include_str!("../templates/index_users.html"),
+        ),
+        ("index.html", include_str!("../templates/index.html")),
+        ("login.html", include_str!("../templates/login.html")),
+        (
+            "not_found.html",
+            include_str!("../templates/not_found.html"),
+        ),
+        ("signup.html", include_str!("../templates/signup.html")),
+        (
+            "submission.html",
+            include_str!("../templates/submission.html"),
+        ),
+        (
+            "view_link.html",
+            include_str!("../templates/view_link.html"),
+        ),
+        (
+            "view_profile.html",
+            include_str!("../templates/view_profile.html"),
+        ),
+    ])
+    .expect("failed to parse templates");
+    tera
+}
+
 #[allow(clippy::future_not_send)]
 async fn webservice(server_config: ServerConfig) -> std::io::Result<()> {
     let host_port = format!("{}:{}", &server_config.internal_ip, &server_config.port);
@@ -198,7 +240,7 @@ async fn webservice(server_config: ServerConfig) -> std::io::Result<()> {
     );
 
     HttpServer::new(move || {
-        let tera = Tera::new("templates/**/*").expect("failed to initialize the templates");
+        let tera = build_tera(); //Tera::new("templates/**/*").expect("failed to initialize the templates");
         let generated = generate();
         App::new()
             .data(server_config.clone())