# Digital Ocean $15 vs $20, what is a better option for Discourse?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [4 Dicembre 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-15-vs-20-what-is-a-better-option-for-discourse/75308 "2017-12-04T04:55:58Z")\
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**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:** [4 Dicembre 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-15-vs-20-what-is-a-better-option-for-discourse/75308/4 "2017-12-04T05:11:47Z")

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> [@mpalmer](#):
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> What’s your current bottleneck? Without knowing that, it’s impossible to say which dimension needs to be expanded.

I believe my bottleneck is the budget. The forum itself has been running smoothly so far.

I’m trying to understand whether I can go down from $20 to $15.

In the same time, it’s interesting what would be the best choice for a Discourse setup when comparing the $15 and $20 options.

Talking about my use-case, here is the stats form the Digital Ocean dashboard for last 30 days:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/3/a3e8a64b0ceebd72dc9ec98148f63e021ae7b5d3.png)

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