diff --git a/hosts/owncast/default.nix b/hosts/owncast/default.nix
index bec9cb48..12582185 100644
--- a/hosts/owncast/default.nix
+++ b/hosts/owncast/default.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 {
   deployment = {
     persistedShares = [ "/etc" "/home" "/var" ];
+    vcpu = 8;
     mem = 2048;
   };
   c3d2.hq.statistics.enable = true;