Ask HN: Why would DigitalOcean require 30GB for a Wordpress droplet?

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Found this rather odd, needed to create a wordpress site today and decided to spin up a droplet on DigitalOcean.

See: http://imgur.com/qOmfMh5

The Ubuntu 14.04 image with Wordpress requires 30GB space, which seems rather odd to me. Any idea why DigitalOcean is doing this?

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I'm assuming that they recommend a droplet with 1GB of memory which comes with 30GB of storage. MySQL takes up a good chunk of resources on the 512MB droplet.

That said, I host three wordpress websites off a 512MB droplet with 20GB storage. Just fire up a barebones 512MB droplet and install wordpress yourself. Be prepared to play with a lot of settings and configurations to not run out of memory all the time.

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