# Failing update **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Created:** [August 23, 2025, 7:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failing-update/379986 "2025-08-23T07:26:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![rlauriston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@rlauriston](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rlauriston)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failing-update/379986/28 "2025-08-25T20:44:22Z")
The upgrade failed because the PostgreSQL upgrade required 14GB of free disk space and the droplet didn’t have quite that much. Why it didn’t work after I expanded the disk space, might be that as suggested by @Jagster above I did a `./launcher cleanup` that was inappropriate for a two-container installation. At some point I’d like to switch to a single-container installation since that seems less problematic for someone who doesn’t really know the Discourse architecture. I would also prefer not to self-host but the site has a lot of photos and Discourse hosting jumped from $100 to $200 a month when we ran out of disk space. The site only brings in around $30-40 a month from Google Ads. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failing-update/379986)._