diff --git a/docusaurus/docs/dev-docs/deployment/digitalocean.md b/docusaurus/docs/dev-docs/deployment/digitalocean.md
index e45c923f14..140cd34fd6 100644
--- a/docusaurus/docs/dev-docs/deployment/digitalocean.md
+++ b/docusaurus/docs/dev-docs/deployment/digitalocean.md
@@ -273,6 +273,16 @@ Your Strapi project is now installed on your DigitalOcean Droplet. Before being
         proxy_set_header Host $host;
         proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
         ```
+    * Nginx has a [configuration setting](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#client_max_body_size) called `client_max_body_size` that will prevent file uploads greater than the specified amount. This will need to be adjusted since its default is only 1MB. Note that strapi middleware is already in charge of parsing requests of file sizes up to 200MB.
+      ```
+      ...
+      http {
+        ...
+        client_max_body_size 200m; # Or 0 to disable
+        ...
+      }
+      ...
+      ```
 
 2. Close the port to outside traffic by running the following commands: