# Godaddy has much lower server requirements than DigitalOcean

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**Created:** [April 16, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-has-much-lower-server-requirements-than-digitalocean/42648 "2016-04-16T03:55:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/godaddy-has-much-lower-server-requirements-than-digitalocean/42648/11 "2016-04-16T05:23:29Z")

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Well, 1GB RAM is the official minimum in our docs. DO “requires” 2GB for their Discourse installs because shared cloud services frown on using disk as swap memory.

So as long as you have 1GB RAM, per our official docs, you will be fine.

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