# Does Discourse require 2GB to work "Lag Free"?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-require-2gb-to-work-lag-free/25278>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 16, 2015, 5:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-require-2gb-to-work-lag-free/25278 "2015-02-16T05:41:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ljpp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ljpp/32/96506_2.png) [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 8:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-require-2gb-to-work-lag-free/25278/20 "2016-01-25T08:11:08Z")

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I have two Discourse instances:

- One quiet forum on 1GB VPS: [http://cd-rw.org](http://cd-rw.org)
- One busy forum currently on 2GB VPS: [http://tappara.co](http://tappara.co)

They both run fine. You can potentially stretch the capabilities of a 1GB VPS by using zram, which I have done - so far so good.

With 1GB VPS slice costing 10$/month, is it really worth the effort try to push Discourse down to 512mb? I mean, what would be the expected savings - 60$ a **year**? If you have some actual traffic on your community, just add AdSense to help with the financials.

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