# How to monetize a Discourse instance?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-monetize-a-discourse-instance/24316>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [Janeiro 22, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-monetize-a-discourse-instance/24316 "2015-01-22T16:27:38Z")\
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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:** [Setembro 10, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-monetize-a-discourse-instance/24316/18 "2018-09-10T20:35:22Z")

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> [@panduwana](#):
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> $5 per month will only give you 512 meg RAM VPS on Digital Ocean

Nope, as I correctly predicted in 2015, $5 gives you 1GB of RAM now on Digital Ocean 😉

How did this end up going for you @CharlesWil?

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