# Are there recommended hosting specifications?

**URL:** <https://ask.gibbonedu.org/t/are-there-recommended-hosting-specifications/3361>\
**Category:** Installation\
**Created:** [January 26, 2022, 7:20am UTC](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/t/are-there-recommended-hosting-specifications/3361 "2022-01-26T07:20:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![karthik0210](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@karthik0210](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/u/karthik0210)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 7:20am UTC](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/t/are-there-recommended-hosting-specifications/3361/1 "2022-01-26T07:20:36Z")

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Hi. This is the first time I’m looking into hosting a web app.

Are there recommended hosting specifications for gibbon?

For around 2000 users, what would the required CPU cores, RAM be?  
And would you recommend a separate database instance like AWS RDS, or host both gibbon and the database on the same machine?

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**Author:** ![sandra](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/user_avatar/ask.gibbonedu.org/sandra/32/5_2.png) [@sandra](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/u/sandra)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 8:08am UTC](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/t/are-there-recommended-hosting-specifications/3361/2 "2022-02-01T08:08:27Z")

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Hi Karthik, welcome to the forums. Gibbon tends to be pretty lean in terms of server requirement, something around 4-6 cores with 8-10GB ram should be plenty. For 2000 users you should easily be able to run the database and server on the same server/virtual machine.

The installation page can give you an idea of the software requirements: [https://docs.gibbonedu.org/administrators/getting-started/installing-gibbon/](https://docs.gibbonedu.org/administrators/getting-started/installing-gibbon/)

Here are some previous posts that may help give you an idea of hosting requirements:  
[https://ask.gibbonedu.org/discussion/559/hosting-requirement-shared-vps-dedicated-or-cloud](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/discussion/559/hosting-requirement-shared-vps-dedicated-or-cloud)  
[https://ask.gibbonedu.org/discussion/1006/gibbon-maximum-users](https://ask.gibbonedu.org/discussion/1006/gibbon-maximum-users)