# Is the 6$ DO droplet enough? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-6-do-droplet-enough/236283 **Category:** Self-hosting **Tags:** hosting **Created:** [August 16, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-6-do-droplet-enough/236283 "2022-08-16T07:57:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 12
### Author: ![Ed\_S](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ed_s/32/134015_2.png) [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S) #### Post date: [August 16, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-6-do-droplet-enough/236283/12 "2022-08-16T16:57:23Z")
Indeed, there’s no hard limit to number of users or amount of activity - it’s just that the forum will be slower to load and refresh as it starts to struggle with memory. And on the topic of memory, you should expect your RAM to be used. You will have swap, and that too will be used, and that’s one thing which can become a hard limit. Keeping an eye on free swap and on paging activity will let you know how that’s going. (Use `top` or `free` and/or `vmstat` for this.) And yes, disk space is another hard limit which might be limiting, and probably the first one you’ll hit - the biggest variable here is how many uploads your users make and how big they are. You’ll either need an instance with more disk space or you’ll need to split the upload storage to a cloud storage provider. There’s information on that, but I haven’t yet done it myself. You do need more free space to update the software than you do to run the forum, so every few weeks when an update comes around you might need to see how you are doing. Downloading and then deleting your backups can help. I wrote more here: > [@3G RAM + 1G Partition Swap - is it enough?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/3g-ram-1g-partition-swap-is-it-enough/228951/11): > > The official minimum supported is 1G RAM + 2G swap - and that is enough, if you have a pretty small forum. Although, every update gets just a little bigger so I expect there will come a time when it’s not enough. For having the forum work correctly and not crash, the sum total of RAM and swap is the important figure. For having the forum responsive and not be too slow, more RAM is preferred. So, if 1G RAM + 2G swap is enough, then 3G RAM + 1G swap will be enough, and might have better perfor… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-6-do-droplet-enough/236283)._