# 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:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-unavailable-with-high-load-average/96246/14 "2018-09-03T15:01:39Z")

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I recently had similar problems that went away when I switched to an “optimized” droplet.

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