Some background on Redis and Sidekiq requirements.

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## Database
If you want to run the database separately, the **recommended** database size is **1 MB per user**
If you want to run the database separately, the **recommended** database size is **1 MB per user**.
## Redis and Sidekiq
Redis stores all user sessions and the background task queue.
The storage requirements for Redis are minimal, about 1kB per user.
Sidekiq processes the background jobs with a multithreaded process.
This process starts with the entire Rails stack (200MB+) but it can grow over time due to memory leaks.
On a very active server (10.000 active users) the Sidekiq process can use 1GB+ of memory.
## Supported webbrowsers