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 ## Running the API image
 
-Running the API image alone requires that you have a MongoDB instance and, ideally, a web server to reverse proxy the API behind.
+Running the API image alone requires that you have a MongoDB instance and (ideally) a web server to reverse proxy the API behind.
 
   1. Create a file named `settings.json` and include any required custom [settings](https://github.com/xbrowsersync/api#3-modify-configuration-settings) values, such as those for connecting to your MongoDB instance. For example, if you are running Docker and MongoDB on a windows server, you would point the service at the MongoDB instance running on the host using the following settings:
 
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 ## Issues and feature requests
 
-Please log Docker-related issues in the [api-docker Issues list](https://github.com/xbrowsersync/api-docker/issues), if you have found an issue with the xBrowserSync API itself or wish to request a new feature, do so in the [api Issues list](https://github.com/xbrowsersync/api/issues/).
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+Please log Docker-related issues in the [api-docker Issues list](https://github.com/xbrowsersync/api-docker/issues), if you have found an issue with the xBrowserSync API itself or wish to request a new feature, do so in the [api Issues list](https://github.com/xbrowsersync/api/issues/).