# With a server with 30GB of RAM How many users can I handle simultaneously

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**Created:** [15 בנובמבר,‏ 2015,‏ 8:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/with-a-server-with-30gb-of-ram-how-many-users-can-i-handle-simultaneously/35585 "2015-11-15T20:22:41Z")
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#### Post date: [15 בנובמבר,‏ 2015,‏ 9:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/with-a-server-with-30gb-of-ram-how-many-users-can-i-handle-simultaneously/35585/4 "2015-11-15T21:25:44Z")

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At that scale your server will be ample and over provisioned. A 4GB instance at Digital Ocean would probably be enough.

There are tons of metrics that define load, it is very hard to estimate:

- Number of concurrent sessions
- Total number of posts in forum
- Anon vs Logged in breakdown (anon is WAY cheaper)
- Number of uniquely secured categories

And so on…

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