# Server requirements and advice
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-requirements-and-advice/158642
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 23, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-requirements-and-advice/158642 "2020-07-23T19:34:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Yariv\_Cohen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yariv_Cohen)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-requirements-and-advice/158642/1 "2020-07-23T19:34:25Z")
Hi there and thank you for everything!
Unfortunately my budget is limited these days so I need some advice for the first few months with Discourse.
I have a VPS (1 core, 2GB ram) and have few Wordpress websites already installed on it.
My average load on the server is around 13%.
My ram use average(and pick) is around 600-800MB.
My swap use is 300MB.
10GB free space SSD
My questions are:
1. Do I have enough resources for installing Discourse on my server, at least for starting and building a community?
2. Is transferring Discourse from my VPS to a new VPS in the future considered complicated?
Thank you very much
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### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-requirements-and-advice/158642/3 "2020-07-23T21:02:45Z")
> [@Yariv\_Cohen](#):
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> Is transferring Discourse from my VPS to a new VPS in the future considered complicated?
Welcome to the community 😉
A simple back-up and restore. 😁
> [@Yariv\_Cohen](#):
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> Do I have enough resources for installing Discourse on my server, at least for starting and building a community?
- The default of **1 GB** RAM works fine for small Discourse communities. Discourse recommend 2 GB RAM for larger communities.
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### Author:  [@Yariv\_Cohen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yariv_Cohen)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-requirements-and-advice/158642/4 "2020-07-23T21:25:58Z")
Thank you for your answers.
Can you define small/larger communities? or maybe it’s more accurate to ask how many users simultaneously can use the discourse?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-requirements-and-advice/158642/5 "2020-07-23T21:29:00Z")
The usual recommendation is to start with a small server and increase your server resources if needed, as it is pretty easy to do so.
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### Author:  [@Yariv\_Cohen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yariv_Cohen)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-requirements-and-advice/158642/6 "2020-07-24T03:50:50Z")
Yeah but in my case I have to change servers after some time and I can’t upgrade.. so i guess their is no answer to the question around how many connections a vps (1core, 2 ram) can handle?
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### Author:  [@Yariv\_Cohen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yariv_Cohen)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-requirements-and-advice/158642/7 "2020-07-30T16:13:07Z")
Anyways just FYI all I started amazon lightsail and it works great (for now… 🤞)
Just don’t forget to open port 443 for https…
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-requirements-and-advice/158642/8 "2020-08-29T16:13:13Z")
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