# How much RAM is required for Discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-ram-is-required-for-discourse/157730>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** unsupported-install\
**Created:** [July 14, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-ram-is-required-for-discourse/157730 "2020-07-14T17:51:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![marianord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marianord/32/90502_2.png) [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-ram-is-required-for-discourse/157730/12 "2020-07-15T05:31:34Z")

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Discourse recommends 1GB as the minimum and I have ran installations this way and it gets slow quick, therefore I would go with 2GB.

This first 2GB last a long mile I currently run a community with ~3500 visits/day without Crawlers and some 20-30 posts per day I haven’t seen any issue with the 2GB of RAM and haven’t noticed any slow downs.

I’m almost sure @AntiMetaman that your issue is with the Bitnami image and not resources. Make sure you CPU is fast enough and if you’re able give it a second CPU (I only use 1vCPU and does the job).

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