# Community size help

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-size-help/24520
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [January 28, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-size-help/24520 "2015-01-28T11:35:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![Blckace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@Blckace](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Blckace)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-size-help/24520/1 "2015-01-28T11:35:45Z")

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I’m not sure about which size to choose on digital ocean.  
What constitutes a community size? Number of daily active users?  
If I predict we would have about 20k registered users, what size would I need?

Thanks

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### Author: ![CharlesWil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/charleswil/32/36694_2.png) [@CharlesWil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CharlesWil)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-size-help/24520/2 "2015-01-28T11:43:29Z")

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Start off with the small 1gb

because on digital ocean you can go up to 2GB easily!  
but digital ocean will not allow you to reduce your server size from 2GB to 1GB

I hope that’s helpful 😊

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### Author: ![Blckace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@Blckace](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Blckace)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-size-help/24520/3 "2015-01-28T12:12:27Z")

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It’s helpful  
Thanks Charles 😄

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### Author: ![CharlesWil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/charleswil/32/36694_2.png) [@CharlesWil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CharlesWil)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-size-help/24520/4 "2015-01-28T12:50:41Z")

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I’m glad that was helpul 😊

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-size-help/24520/5 "2015-01-29T12:19:06Z")

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Note also that, at any time, you can take a backup, set up a new Discourse instance, and restore the backup there, and then you’ll just be down for the duration of a DNS rollover.

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### Author: ![thangngoc89](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thangngoc89/32/115436_2.png) [@thangngoc89](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thangngoc89)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-size-help/24520/6 "2015-01-29T13:23:33Z")

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@riking acctually, DigitalOcean is smart enough to assign the same IP of the previous droplet for the new one.

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### Author: ![Blckace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@Blckace](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Blckace)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-size-help/24520/7 "2015-01-29T16:26:27Z")

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Excuse my ignorance but the back up you’re talking about is it made from the digital ocean interface?

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-size-help/24520/8 "2015-01-29T20:11:19Z")

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Nope, from Discourse. Go to `/admin/backups`.