diff --git a/Seeder/settings/env.py b/Seeder/settings/env.py
index 51a2a6ff..b5c6d81e 100755
--- a/Seeder/settings/env.py
+++ b/Seeder/settings/env.py
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
 
 INTERNAL_IPS = os.environ.get('INTERNAL_IPS', '127.0.0.1').split(' ')
 
+FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE = int(os.environ.get(
+    'FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE', 52428800))  # 50*1024*1024 = 50 MiB
+
 # Database
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/settings/#databases
 # since we use special PostgresSQL fields we cannot simply use any db.
diff --git a/ci/nginx.conf b/ci/nginx.conf
index 953719b9..91c62005 100644
--- a/ci/nginx.conf
+++ b/ci/nginx.conf
@@ -5,5 +5,9 @@ server {
     location /media/ {
         root /seeder;
     }
-  listen 0.0.0.0:80;
+
+    # Increase max upload size to ~50MB
+    client_max_body_size 53M;
+
+    listen 0.0.0.0:80;
 }