# Update stuck?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-stuck/329677>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [October 7, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-stuck/329677 "2024-10-07T11:32:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 7:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-stuck/329677/10 "2024-10-09T07:47:14Z")

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Updating demands a lot more of the server than the regular day-to-day work.

It’s always a good idea, and sometimes essential, to have swap. If you can spare the disk space, 4G swap is a good number.

I have in the past temporarily upsized my server to more RAM, done the upgrade, then downsized it. You have to sure this is reversible. It only costs a few pennies to run the bigger server for an hour or so. But of course, there is a little downtime with this method.

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