# Do I need a VPS for Discourse and do I host the main site on the same server?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-i-need-a-vps-for-discourse-and-do-i-host-the-main-site-on-the-same-server/15774
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [May 19, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-i-need-a-vps-for-discourse-and-do-i-host-the-main-site-on-the-same-server/15774 "2014-05-19T18:20:21Z")
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### Author: ![Sander78](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sander78/32/296615_2.png) [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2014, 9:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-i-need-a-vps-for-discourse-and-do-i-host-the-main-site-on-the-same-server/15774/5 "2014-05-20T09:15:37Z")

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> [@Namorbia](#):
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> The site will be bilingual, so two installations of Discourse are required, which ups the resource usage.

Is doesn’t really. Using the multisite option the formula is not `amount-of-Discourse-instances` times `resources needed`.

I run 5 Discourse instances on a single 1Gb Digital Ocean VPS just fine. Of course those are small fora, the needed resources get higher when you get (a lot) more users.

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