# 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:** [September 1, 2016, 8:16am 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:** ![steko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@steko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steko)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-size-of-your-discourse-instance/49538/2 "2016-09-01T08:34:59Z")

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My forum is much smaller than this, so I’m not sure my experience is relevant here, however: **how many backups do you have stored**? If one backup is 217 MB is it possible that 46 GB result from (too) many old backups?

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