512 MB Droplet good enough for a 3000 pageviews / day WordPress blog?

Posted on May 10, 2014

Hello all,

Recent DO customer here. My WordPress blog now runs on Ubuntu 14.04 LEMP stack with Varnish, APC, and W3 Total Cache.

I am receiving about 3000 pageviews day. My RAM is about 90% full (I am using a 1 G swap). CPU is generally less than 10%. Only once did it go to 65%. My question is when and how do I know if my site has outgrown the 512 MB droplet and needs an upgraded server?

Thanks for your help.

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Cava Pip

May 11, 2014

Thanks for your input pablo.

Cava Pip

May 11, 2014

Thanks Larry. I am quite interested in this: “You might want to think about looking at your web server and PHP configurations - how many spare servers & processes you’re spawning and how long they’re kept alive, just to make sure that you’re not spawning processes you don’t really need. For my relatively low-traffic sites, I found the Apache, nginx and PHP (I’m using PHP-FPM with nginx) defaults were set a little bit high for what I needed. I freed up a fair bit of memory by tuning them down a little bit.” Can you please suggest any guides on this? I have no clue where to start. Thanks again.