# £3 Discourse hosting questions

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [September 21, 2016, 6:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/3-discourse-hosting-questions/50428 "2016-09-21T06:26:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![bek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bek/32/61660_2.png) [@bek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bek)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/3-discourse-hosting-questions/50428/8 "2016-09-21T12:45:22Z")

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What?! 12GB of backup? I think there is something wrong. In another discussion @pfaffman wrote this to me.

> [@pfaffman](#):
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> I just imported a mailing list with 230K messages, about 15K users and another ~8K images. It’s ~300MB.

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