# What is the size of your Discourse instance?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-size-of-your-discourse-instance/49538>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [1 سبتمبر 2016، 8:16ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-size-of-your-discourse-instance/49538 "2016-09-01T08:16:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![ljpp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ljpp/32/96506_2.png) [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)\
**Post date:** [1 سبتمبر 2016، 8:16ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-size-of-your-discourse-instance/49538/1 "2016-09-01T08:16:44Z")

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Our community ([Tappara.co](http://tappara.co/about), in Finnish) is less than one year old.

- We have about 58k posts by 1000+ users. Images and backups are pushed to Amazon S3.
- Our backup size today is about 217MB and growing at a rate of 0.5MB - pace will pick up as the season starts in two weeks.

According to OVH’s dashboard, our instance is already using about **46GB** of data, which seems quite a lot. I perform /launcher and apt cleanup jobs regularly.

I am getting slightly worried by the storage footprint of our forum, as we are in this for the long run. What are your numbers in terms of posts, users and storage consumed?

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