# 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:** ![justin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/justin/32/157614_2.png) [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-ram-is-required-for-discourse/157730/2 "2020-07-14T17:58:38Z")

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You can easily run Discourse off a VPS with 2GB of RAM. You may want to consider setting up swap if you don’t have that already. Running `./discourse-setup` will do this for you.

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