# Discourse unavailable with high load average

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-unavailable-with-high-load-average/96246>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 3, 2018, 7:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-unavailable-with-high-load-average/96246 "2018-09-03T07:33:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnDoux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@JohnDoux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JohnDoux)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 7:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-unavailable-with-high-load-average/96246/1 "2018-09-03T07:33:47Z")

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Hello everyone,

I have been running an instance of Discourse for the last 2 years with Digital Ocean without any problem but since the last 2 weeks, it became very slow or unavailable most of the time.

I have upgraded my hosting to the following one, it’s a bit better but still facing the same problems:

- Ubuntu 14.04 x64
- 2 vCPUs
- 4GB / 80GB Disk

This is the output of the **htop** command:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/7/97c241ef2adaf1bcd54386e27ad12323ddb48979.png)

Any idea where to start fixing this problem? Thanks a lot for your help.

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