# Optimize images before uploading?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimize-images-before-uploading/17150
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 3, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimize-images-before-uploading/17150 "2014-07-03T06:33:47Z")
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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: [July 16, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimize-images-before-uploading/17150/6 "2014-07-16T17:55:44Z")

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On a “typical” Digital Ocean steady state install of Discourse, with the 1GB / 30GB minimum, I am seeing:

30.9% used of 29.40 GB = **9.08 GB used, 20.32 GB free**

20.32 GB / 3 MB = 6,773 full size (3mb) images  
20.32 GB / 2 MB = 10,160 medium size (2mb) images

So if you have say, 1000 members, and they upload on average 3 images per year per user (3,000 images/year), assuming an “average” image size of 2mb, that means you’d run out of disk space in about 3 years.

Clearly it depends heavily on

- size of your community
- what they are uploading
- how often they are uploading

But there’s some back of the envelope calculations that seem reasonable to me.

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