diff --git a/docker-compose-reverseproxy.yml b/docker-compose-reverseproxy.yml
index 2b29fa1..5878b1a 100644
--- a/docker-compose-reverseproxy.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-reverseproxy.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ services:
       - "./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"
     ports:
       - "8080:8080"
+    # Comment the line below to stop the container from restarting on boot
+    # unless it was manually stopped
+    restart: unless-stopped
   lsmb:
     volumes:
       - "lsmbdata:/srv/ledgersmb"
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 985734f..aee9a20 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ services:
       - internal
     volumes:
       - "pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data"
+    # Comment the line below to stop the container from restarting on boot
+    # unless it was manually stopped
+    restart: unless-stopped
   lsmb:
     depends_on:
       - postgres
@@ -67,6 +70,9 @@ services:
       # hosted in a separate container, this setting needs to be adjusted.
       #
       # PROXY_IP: 172.17.0.1/12
+    # Comment the line below to stop the container from restarting on boot
+    # unless it was manually stopped
+    restart: unless-stopped
 
 # having the dbdata volume is required to persist our
 # data between PostgreSQL container updates; without