# Is the 6$ DO droplet enough?

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**Created:** [August 16, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-6-do-droplet-enough/236283 "2022-08-16T07:57:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-6-do-droplet-enough/236283/27 "2023-02-02T09:11:46Z")

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Well, for me with a lot of smaller than 1000 - 5000 concurrent users (we don’t care how many there is per day) that wasn’t enough. That’s why I needed upgrade to 4GB/2vcpu droplet — and party because I needed bigger disk too.

Now I have too many cores and only a bit over 50 % of RAM is in use 😂

Sure. I would use AWS or another solution for files. I don’t have global audience and actually that solution costs same or a bit more than increasing droplet at that level. And if/when one needs more RAM upgrading cost same with or without harddive space — it is only matter of ability to roll back (and if a forum gets smaller in the time passing and there is need to roll back… that’s not wanted situaton 😉 )

Question _how much is much_ is almost as hard to answer than _how much is enough_.

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