# Scaling Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/scaling-discourse/233817>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [July 24, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scaling-discourse/233817 "2022-07-24T20:14:32Z")\
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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:** [July 24, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scaling-discourse/233817/2 "2022-07-24T20:21:37Z")

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Sure. Just scale your VM and then run

```
  ./discourse-setup

```

to have it adjust the parameters for the memory usage. You can scale to whatever you want. Whether you scale to 2 or 4GB for more is up to you, but I’d guess that 4GB will be enough.

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