# Discourse + web server. Possible or better to avoid?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-web-server-possible-or-better-to-avoid/157489
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [July 12, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-web-server-possible-or-better-to-avoid/157489 "2020-07-12T04:58:11Z")
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### Author: ![nap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a87d85/32.png) [@nap](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nap)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-web-server-possible-or-better-to-avoid/157489/16 "2020-07-13T11:13:27Z")

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With a small droplet, you may want to reduced the buffers. My droplet has 4GB mem and 4 shared cores.

> [@Discourse Bad Gateway after reboot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bad-gateway-after-reboot/156446/16):
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> I have one main 40G partition (14GB free), 512MB swap, and an 8GB partition for backups (not mounted).
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> It appears I have overcome the problem. Initially I tried reducing buffers to 2GB and workers to 4 but got the same error. I then reduced the buffers down to 1GB whereupon `rebuild` succeeded and the forum is now back up.

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