# Need advice on DO droplet upgrade

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-advice-on-do-droplet-upgrade/300837
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [March 25, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-advice-on-do-droplet-upgrade/300837 "2024-03-25T14:40:43Z")
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### Author: ![UnicornX](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/unicornx/32/373558_2.png) [@UnicornX](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UnicornX)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-advice-on-do-droplet-upgrade/300837/1 "2024-03-25T14:40:43Z")

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Hi

Need your advice on whether should I upgrade my digital ocean instance

currenly running on 1 cpu 2gb ram and 50gb storage instance

![swap](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/c/5/5c5d40a4438cd59a3d92ba887ad36902337df32d.png)

I am thinking of upgrading to 4gb ram

current site traffic - 100K monthly

Thanks

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### Author: ![UnicornX](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/unicornx/32/373558_2.png) [@UnicornX](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UnicornX)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-advice-on-do-droplet-upgrade/300837/2 "2024-03-25T14:55:33Z")

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upgraded to 4gb

Here is the stats  
total used free shared buff/cache available  
Mem: 3.8Gi 1.3Gi 160Mi 388Mi 2.3Gi 1.8Gi  
Swap: 2.0Gi 2.0Mi 2.0Gi

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-advice-on-do-droplet-upgrade/300837/3 "2024-03-25T15:22:54Z")

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You should run `discourse-setup` and it will update the memory usage in the `app.yml`. It will give you a chance to type control-c before it asks all of the configuration questions. Then you can do a rebuild.

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### Author: ![UnicornX](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/unicornx/32/373558_2.png) [@UnicornX](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UnicornX)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-advice-on-do-droplet-upgrade/300837/4 "2024-03-25T15:31:35Z")

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Thanks for the reply

Should I stick with 4gb

Is it necessary to run this setup things

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-advice-on-do-droplet-upgrade/300837/5 "2024-03-25T15:33:14Z")

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It’s probably not necessary to have 4GB for your size community, though you might benefit from extra swap.

If you resized the RAM and not the disk you can resize back to 2GB.

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### Author: ![UnicornX](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/unicornx/32/373558_2.png) [@UnicornX](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UnicornX)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-advice-on-do-droplet-upgrade/300837/6 "2024-03-25T15:37:30Z")

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Thanks for prompt reply sir

yeah only resized cpu and ram not disk

Do I need to run **discourse-setup** after resizing ??

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-advice-on-do-droplet-upgrade/300837/7 "2024-03-25T15:39:41Z")

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If you resize the memory, then you should run `discourse-setup` to adjust the memory settings or read the comments in `app.yml` and do it by hand.