# 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:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scaling-discourse/233817/6 "2022-07-24T20:47:11Z")

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4GB will be ample.

Your storage needs won’t explode unless you expect to be upload-heavy. In which case don’t scale up the directly-attached storage beyond what the 4GB offers as standard ($$$) instead look at implementing S3 or one of the S3-like clones which are out there.

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