diff --git a/setup-scripts/limits.conf b/setup-scripts/limits.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bc632dfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup-scripts/limits.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# /etc/security/limits.conf
+#
+#Each line describes a limit for a user in the form:
+#
+#<domain>        <type>  <item>  <value>
+#
+#Where:
+#<domain> can be:
+#        - a user name
+#        - a group name, with @group syntax
+#        - the wildcard *, for default entry
+#        - the wildcard %, can be also used with %group syntax,
+#                 for maxlogin limit
+#        - NOTE: group and wildcard limits are not applied to root.
+#          To apply a limit to the root user, <domain> must be
+#          the literal username root.
+#
+#<type> can have the two values:
+#        - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits
+#        - "hard" for enforcing hard limits
+#
+#<item> can be one of the following:
+#        - core - limits the core file size (KB)
+#        - data - max data size (KB)
+#        - fsize - maximum filesize (KB)
+#        - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
+#        - nofile - max number of open file descriptors
+#        - rss - max resident set size (KB)
+#        - stack - max stack size (KB)
+#        - cpu - max CPU time (MIN)
+#        - nproc - max number of processes
+#        - as - address space limit (KB)
+#        - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user
+#        - maxsyslogins - max number of logins on the system
+#        - priority - the priority to run user process with
+#        - locks - max number of file locks the user can hold
+#        - sigpending - max number of pending signals
+#        - msgqueue - max memory used by POSIX message queues (bytes)
+#        - nice - max nice priority allowed to raise to values: [-20, 19]
+#        - rtprio - max realtime priority
+#        - chroot - change root to directory (Debian-specific)
+#
+#<domain>      <type>  <item>         <value>
+#
+
+#*               soft    core            0
+#root            hard    core            100000
+#*               hard    rss             10000
+#@student        hard    nproc           20
+#@faculty        soft    nproc           20
+#@faculty        hard    nproc           50
+#ftp             hard    nproc           0
+#ftp             -       chroot          /ftp
+#@student        -       maxlogins       4
+
+user             soft    nofile          25000
+# End of file
+~
diff --git a/setup-scripts/setup.sh b/setup-scripts/setup.sh
index 19ae9426..fabb4e1a 100755
--- a/setup-scripts/setup.sh
+++ b/setup-scripts/setup.sh
@@ -43,17 +43,17 @@ sudo ufw allow ssh
 sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full'
 sudo ufw allow 'Nginx HTTP'
 
-# Install Go 1.13.7.
-wget -c https://dl.google.com/go/go1.13.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz
-sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.13.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz
+# Install Go 1.13.11.
+wget -c https://dl.google.com/go/go1.13.11.linux-amd64.tar.gz
+sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.13.11.linux-amd64.tar.gz
 export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
-rm go1.13.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz
+rm go1.13.11.linux-amd64.tar.gz
 
 # Sanity check that will pass if go was installed correctly.
 go version
 
 # Install Sia
-git clone -b v1.4.4 https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia ~/Sia
+git clone -b v1.4.8 https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia ~/Sia
 make --directory ~/Sia
 
 # Setup systemd files
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ sudo mkdir -p /var/log/journal
 sudo cp journald.conf /etc/systemd/journald.conf
 sudo systemctl restart systemd-journald
 
+# Set up file limits.
+sudo cp limits.conf /etc/security/limits.conf
+
 # Setup periodical /tmp cleanup so we don't run out of disk space
 # - deletes anything older than 10 days from /tmp, crontab is set to run it every day at midnight
 (sudo crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "0 0 * * * find /tmp -type f -atime +10 -delete >/dev/null 2>&1") | sudo crontab -
diff --git a/setup-scripts/siad-upload.service b/setup-scripts/siad-upload.service
index 4516a3ad..950ab677 100644
--- a/setup-scripts/siad-upload.service
+++ b/setup-scripts/siad-upload.service
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ ExecStart=/home/user/go/bin/siad --api-addr "localhost:9970" --rpc-addr ":9971"
 ExecStop=/home/user/go/bin/siac --addr "localhost:9970" stop
 Restart=on-failure
 SyslogIdentifier=siad-upload
+LimitNOFILE=10000
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=default.target
diff --git a/setup-scripts/siad.service b/setup-scripts/siad.service
index 83207c79..2aaa75ab 100644
--- a/setup-scripts/siad.service
+++ b/setup-scripts/siad.service
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ ExecStart=/home/user/go/bin/siad
 ExecStop=/home/user/go/bin/siac stop
 Restart=on-failure
 SyslogIdentifier=siad
+LimitNOFILE=10000
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=default.target