# Can I increase the 1024000 kb limit on attachment?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-increase-the-1024000-kb-limit-on-attachment/165367>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [September 25, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-increase-the-1024000-kb-limit-on-attachment/165367 "2020-09-25T13:52:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 5:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-increase-the-1024000-kb-limit-on-attachment/165367/13 "2021-07-26T05:52:58Z")

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The current upload component is simply not designed for large uploads (only uploading backups in the admin UI is)

We are normalizing and refactoring our upload code at the moment and plan to support direct uploads to s3, once that is done, technically large uploads to s3 could work.

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