# Can I increase the 1024000 kb limit on attachment?

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**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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**Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-increase-the-1024000-kb-limit-on-attachment/165367/2 "2020-09-25T14:13:42Z")

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> [@Alon1](#):
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> I’m using S3 for attachment storage so that can handle up to 160GB.

We don’t upload straight into S3, it goes to your server first and the server sends it to S3. That means you don’t want a limit larger than you free disk space.

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