# Recommended storage for using Discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-storage-for-using-discourse/170748
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [November 20, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-storage-for-using-discourse/170748 "2020-11-20T14:43:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@romano97002](https://meta.discourse.org/u/romano97002)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-storage-for-using-discourse/170748/1 "2020-11-20T14:43:26Z")
Good morning all,
I would like to know what storage is recommended to open its Discourse forum?
Thank you in advance for your reply.
Good afternoon.
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### Author:  [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-storage-for-using-discourse/170748/2 "2020-11-20T14:47:12Z")
That depends. The fastest the storage the better, usually for small installations I would go with the local storage, if you plan to have a lot of attachments it’s cheaper and easier to run in the long run to setup S3. That way the _important stuff_ is fast enough and predictable and the media gets loaded via Object Storage.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-storage-for-using-discourse/170748/3 "2020-11-20T16:08:35Z")
Does this help? SSD rather than spinning disks: [502 error on nginx - #8 by Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/t/502-error-on-nginx/160592/8)
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### Author:  [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-storage-for-using-discourse/170748/4 "2020-11-20T16:15:22Z")
Yes, SSD helps a lot, NVMe is even better.
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### Author:  [@romano97002](https://meta.discourse.org/u/romano97002)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-storage-for-using-discourse/170748/5 "2020-11-26T18:58:24Z")
Hi,
Thank you for your answers.
I don’t know how to do it. It’s complex for me. I ask you this because I intend to choose the Discourse hosting solution which offers me turnkey creation and hosting.
> **[Discourse Hosting Plans and Pricing - Communiteq](https://www.communiteq.com/discoursehosting/pricing/)**
>
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Thank you in advance for your help.
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### Author:  [@romano97002](https://meta.discourse.org/u/romano97002)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-storage-for-using-discourse/170748/6 "2020-11-27T18:43:41Z")
Hi,
I bring the subject up to get an answer.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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### Author:  [@Mevo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mevo)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-storage-for-using-discourse/170748/7 "2020-11-27T21:36:03Z")
Didn’t you get an answer!?
Or was your question HOW MUCH storage, and not WHICH kind of storage? (I think “what” has been understood as “which” by most people, but maybe it wasn’t what you meant).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-storage-for-using-discourse/170748/8 "2020-11-27T22:30:14Z")
I suggest asking your hosting service?
You can also do some simple math – estimate how many pictures / attachments will be uploaded each day by how many users, then multiply by the number of days, etc.