# Minimum Requirements vs. competitors **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/minimum-requirements-vs-competitors/79420 **Category:** Self-hosting **Created:** [January 31, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/minimum-requirements-vs-competitors/79420 "2018-01-31T07:42:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield) #### Post date: [January 31, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/minimum-requirements-vs-competitors/79420/9 "2018-01-31T08:33:10Z")
One caveat: my traffic is moderate, if you have a lot of users you may need to transfer to a beefier setup. See this guy for an example of a very high traffic site!: > [@1,000,000 pageviews in 2 weeks...! Why? Because Discourse. rocket](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891): > > Just [15 days ago](https://john.do/bitcoin-pub/) I shared a new [Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency community site](http://thebitcoin.pub/) that my brother was putting together and it’s been an insane 15 days. The first day that the site was live it saw a grand total of 796 pageviews – not bad, not bad, right? I was impressed but I wasn’t even remotely prepared for what was to come. You see, the next day the site didn’t see double the number of pageviews or even triple. It didn’t see 5 or even 10X. The very next day the community site clocked in nearly 60,00… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/minimum-requirements-vs-competitors/79420)._