Looking at the Starter plan of 5GB, how would a non-technical person know if 5GB storage is enough? We are looking at creating a community from a FB group of 10,000 people. Currently only 5 or so posts per day, but other times it’s been busier. I would expect that not all will migrate across. Most…

we’re not a business so that would involved a fundraising strategy, which I’d like to have a think about now rather than later.

This is a fair question; it’s hard to judge. Text is essentially zero, to the point you can ignore it. Images take up more space, but we have knobs available to downscale those and can recompress on the server side if you want to do that. Videos are comparatively huge and will quickly eat up stor…

It’s not just hard to judge - it’s a moving target. 5GB will be enough, until you have accumulated enough uploads to use it all. If that’s a week, then of course 5G is not enough. But if it’s a year, or two years, is that enough? It depends on what timescale you are thinking of. So, it’s about ho…

[image] Ed_S: Other forums will be very different We host some forums around 10y old that have >1TiB of uploads [1] and some that have <1GiB, so it very much depends on what the users are going to do, indeed! the users really, REALLY love posting pictures ↩︎

@skate are you satisfied by the answers you got here? If not, let us know if you have followup questions! Good luck with the migration of your facebook group. If you want to talk about that process along the way, feel free to start a topic in Community Building - that will be a process that interest…

How to assess storage size?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 2, 2025, 12:17am 2

If it gets to be a problem, you’ll have enough users that you won’t mind moving to a more expensive plan.

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How to assess storage size?

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