# Digital Ocean hosting: Do I need a system admin?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-hosting-do-i-need-a-system-admin/59525
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [2017年三月20日 10:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-hosting-do-i-need-a-system-admin/59525 "2017-03-20T10:01:55Z")
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### Author: ![bts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bts/32/184556_2.png) [@bts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bts)
#### Post date: [2017年十二月13日 21:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-hosting-do-i-need-a-system-admin/59525/29 "2017-12-13T21:28:45Z")

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This has a good overview of the more occasional maintenance tasks beyond the one-click upgrades in the dashboard:

> [@Manually update Discourse and Docker image to latest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-manually-update-discourse-and-docker-image-to-latest/23325):
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> bookmark This guide provides step-by-step instructions for manually updating Discourse, the Docker container, and the Ubuntu operating system on a self-hosted setup. person_raising_hand Required user level: System Administrator warning SSH access to the server. If you self-host Discourse, you occasionally need to run a manual update via the command line to get the latest security releases and newest libraries. These updates are not picked up in admin/upgrade, which is why you’ll occa…

Basically some minor server updates every couple months, and perhaps more major server updates once or twice a year.

In my experience so far, this is probably overstating it:

> [@itsbhanusharma](#):
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> You can choose to spare a sunday every 2 weeks to do all the update and housekeeping things

Unless you have a ton of plugins / customization, it’s more like an hour every couple months for server stuff, after you’ve got an initial setup with everything working as expected. (We haven’t yet run into major issues beyond that…knock on wood!)

Only other thing I recall is running out of disk space at one point and having to run this (maybe should be added to the guide linked above!):

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-on-disk-space-cleaning-up-old-docker-containers/15792/2?u=bts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-on-disk-space-cleaning-up-old-docker-containers/15792/2)

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