# Self Hosted Forum - When to Upgrade to Larger Droplet?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** server-resources, hosting\
**Created:** [September 9, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosted-forum-when-to-upgrade-to-larger-droplet/278433 "2023-09-09T19:43:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![BCHK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bchk/32/3268_2.png) [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosted-forum-when-to-upgrade-to-larger-droplet/278433/1 "2023-09-09T19:43:59Z")

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I have a self-hosted forum on Digital Ocean. I was wondering if people have any rules of thumb for when they need to upgrade from one size droplet to another? What are the key metrics they look at?

Here is the current state of my droplet:

![Screen Shot 2023-09-09 at 12.42.18 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/4X/2/0/9/2098e3c78718f76cfa83e2ea451feb65ba250f33_2_690x56.png)

 ![Screen Shot 2023-09-09 at 12.42.48 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/1/6/b16bd96ef9281dff5ba858d1ab817e3ec1cbce79.jpeg)

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 ![Screen Shot 2023-09-09 at 12.43.48 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/b/4/5b493b5f52cc4bdebb3423e671964d0aeebae192.jpeg)

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