Hi folks, this may have been answered but my search terms turned up a blank. Does anyone have any guides to how much CPU and ram is needed for communities of different sizes? Any help would be appreciated.

It’s going to really depend on how popular it turns out to be. :man_shrugging: I would say you might need at least an 8GB/4vCPU with 50GB disk (depending if you begin with blank slate or you will migrate data into it from day one in which case you might need more) and 2GB swap to kick off, but make…

How many people do you plan to migrate onto Discourse on Day One and what growth do you expect? There are many variables you also need to consider- how many Topics, who will be online simultaneously, etc. etc. The thing to bear in mind is that it’s extremely easy to scale up to a bigger server whe…

Thank you so much for your help.

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Ric_harvey (ric_harvey) November 16, 2023, 6:47am 3

This is for a work internal developer community of potentially 20,000 developers

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