# Resources per user per post

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/resources-per-user-per-post/22683>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [December 1, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/resources-per-user-per-post/22683 "2014-12-01T00:29:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![jehrlich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@jehrlich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jehrlich)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/resources-per-user-per-post/22683/1 "2014-12-01T00:29:20Z")

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I help manage a Listserv group with 2,000+ subscribers and close to 1,000 posts per month. Posts are often relatively long (maybe averaging 3,000 char), and sometimes with attachments. Can anyone give me a rough estimate of resources needed to support this scale with good performance? I have a test site working on DigitalOcean, and need to consider whether we can afford a move from Listserv (which we are getting for free) to a hosted Discource forum.

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2014, 1:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/resources-per-user-per-post/22683/2 "2014-12-01T01:39:05Z")

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Its quite likely you could handle it on a 10$ a month instance, but I would probably opt for the 20$ instance to be safe.