# How much of a performance booster is 2GB vs 1GB RAM?

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**Created:** [2월 26, 2017, 11:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-of-a-performance-booster-is-2gb-vs-1gb-ram/58000 "2017-02-26T23:31:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Post date:** [2월 26, 2017, 11:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-of-a-performance-booster-is-2gb-vs-1gb-ram/58000/1 "2017-02-26T23:31:32Z")

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I noticed that at leastr some of the pages in my (newly installed) discourse forum are quite slow to load:  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/8/68145902e1417e2a083365e2d38d0ecdfc0f8529.png)  
Currently I’m on a 1GB digital ocean droplet and have a WP site on the same droplet, but with no traffic yet, so I am wondering whether upgrading to 2GB RAM would noticeably improve anything?

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