# Hosting on ArubaCloud
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [September 20, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445 "2017-09-20T14:09:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@BenM](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BenM)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/1 "2017-09-20T14:09:34Z")
**Hello, Community!**
I would like to ask is it good to run a small Discourse instance on ArubaCloud’s Small VPS? Their features:
- Linux
- 1 Core Intel® Xeon® E5-2650L v4
- 1 GB RAM
- 20 GB SSD Storage
- 2 TB/Month Data Transfer
- Powered by VMware
- Available in multiple data centers
Price is currently 1$/Month
**Regards, Ben.**
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/2 "2017-09-20T14:11:18Z")
Looks good.
Try it and let us know!
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### Author:  [@BenM](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BenM)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/3 "2017-09-20T14:11:44Z")
Hello there, that pretty much means I should give a try?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/4 "2017-09-20T14:12:55Z")
That’s what I meant by “try it”. 😉
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### Author:  [@BenM](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BenM)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/5 "2017-09-20T14:15:06Z")
Sure, but also I would like to ask, by following features I gave. Will Discourse run flawlessly (if small instance, 2-3 posts/day & ~100 users.). Thanks.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/6 "2017-09-20T14:30:48Z")
That’s what I meant by “Looks good.” It looks pretty close to the minimum recommended Digital Ocean droplet:
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### Author:  [@BenM](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BenM)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/7 "2017-09-20T15:39:16Z")
So 10GB less won’t do too much difference, I hope.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/8 "2017-09-20T15:40:56Z")
It’s a little tight, but for a small forum shouldn’t be a problem. You may need to
```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./launcher cleanup
```
more often, but it should be fine.
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### Author:  [@BenM](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BenM)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/9 "2017-09-20T15:42:14Z")
Ok, thanks for the help.
P.S: if not bothering what actually cleanup does? Deletes old topics? Or clears half of the community? Everything? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/10 "2017-09-20T16:00:05Z")
[https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=launcher%20cleanup](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=launcher%20cleanup)
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### Author:  [@BenM](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BenM)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/11 "2017-09-20T16:17:56Z")
Ok thanks for the help, perfect!
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### Author:  [@PabloC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PabloC)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/12 "2017-09-20T18:12:32Z")
I’ve opened an account to test it. Any recommendation? Anything particular to test?
I’ve installed latest version of docker without any issue at the moment.
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### Author:  [@BenM](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BenM)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/13 "2017-09-20T18:24:25Z")
Hey, that’s awesome. Can you please give a link to your instance. And create like 2 topics with like 2 sentences on each topic. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/14 "2017-09-20T20:15:12Z")
Been running Aruba for some time and it works great, from technical perspective. Search for “aruba” here to find some details.
Note that they have swap partition by default.
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### Author:  [@BenM](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BenM)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/15 "2017-09-21T04:26:00Z")
That’s awesome! If not a problem, can you provide a link to your community?
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-on-arubacloud/70445/16 "2017-09-21T05:15:06Z")
I tried a small instance on Azure, similar CPU and RAM. Discourse’s setup didn’t like less than 2GB of RAM and went ahead to create a swap file. It didn’t happen when I tried the next size up which has 2CPU and 2GB.
I can say Discourse runs like a speed demon on 2 CPU and 2 GB RAM on my small, light forum similar to yours. The smaller size VM should not give you a problem except maybe during installation.
Also using 2 CPU when rebuilding Discourse just takes forever… Like 15-20min or more. So if you are just playing around and trying out plugins, I suggest you go with a fast CPU setup. More expensive yea, but you’re likely to use it only for a week or two to get the setup down.
Then just downsize it back to small. Remember, everytime you change plugins, it is a rebuild. The waiting can be frustrating.