By Ed Lomonaco
I currently have a droplet that just has a mongo instance on it, but I’ll be looking to setup a webserver to host an API website so I’m curious if I should have 2 droplets or just set up a big enough droplet to have both things on one server.
I know mongo can be memory intensive so I don’t want to risk having slow downs because too much is one one system.
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The disk is SSD so there should not be that much “slowing down” and if it happens you can always migrate one application to a new droplet. Mongo will release the cached memory on a “less used” basis so you probably won’t notice anything.
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