# Digital Ocean $15 vs $20, what is a better option for Discourse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Tags:** hosting\ **Created:** [Décembre 4, 2017, 4:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-15-vs-20-what-is-a-better-option-for-discourse/75308 "2017-12-04T04:55:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\ **Post date:** [Décembre 4, 2017, 4:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-15-vs-20-what-is-a-better-option-for-discourse/75308/1 "2017-12-04T04:55:58Z")
Digital Ocean is a recommended provider for Discourse self-hosting. It recently introduced a $15 / mo plan. Compare it to $10 and $20 plans that were there and are still an option: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/f/2f0f78c01f5880949fe7f55b9834ec1c6e0dc303.png) It is interesting that the $15 option has 3GB Memory, which is +1GB compared to the $20 option. Vice-versa, $20/mo has 2 vCPUs. Not considering the SSD Disk in this comparison, because likely [you’re going to add Block Storage for image hosting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-a-how-to-guide-for-using-digialocean-block-storage-for-image-uploads/49535) anyway, which comes at $10/100GB price. So, we’re currently hosting our 2300 members community at the $20/mo option. All is good and is pretty fast. Pageviews are between 200k and 500k / month, depending on the season. Now, would I benefit moving to the $15/mo option to get more memory? Will downgrading the number of CPUs from 2 to 1 damange performance considerably? I somewhere read Jeff Atwood’s comments about CPU speed being much more important for Discourse than the number of CPUs. Any comments? Any recommendations? Discourse team, you should know about it the most. Please give some insight. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-15-vs-20-what-is-a-better-option-for-discourse/75308)._