How can I optimize my 5$ droplet? Ubuntu 12.10

July 10, 2014 2.7k views
me237141
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I have the following things installed on it :
LAMP - No one except me use my website. The website is basic html, nothing more.
Teamspeak 3 server
VSFTPD
SSH
fail2ban
Nginx - only using nginx for RTMP streaming (almost never). Its off 95% of the time.

I feel like I'm running out of ram, or that the cpu can't handle my server...

I have a bot that uses Java to deliver music to my Teamspeak 3 server, but I limit the bot's ram usage to about 50mb, but its having a hard time keeping the song smooth.

Anyone know what I can do to optimize my server?
I already created a 1G swap file

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sianios July 11, 2014

You can start by uninstalling PHP since your website is html, unless RTMP streaming is using it. Stop nginx when not using.

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kamaln7 MOD July 11, 2014

How much memory is actually being used? See Help! Linux ate my RAM!.

See if you can increase the bot's memory limit. I would also look into switching from Apache to nginx completely: How To Migrate from an Apache Web Server to Nginx on an Ubuntu VPS.

How To Migrate from an Apache Web Server to Nginx on an Ubuntu VPS
by Justin Ellingwood
Apache and Nginx are both powerful web servers that can reliably host web content on the internet. While Apache is the currently the most popular web server in the world, Nginx is rapidly gaining converts due to its low resource usage. In this guide, we will discuss how to migrate from Apache to Nginx.
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  • me237141 July 11, 2014

    I only use Nginx to stream. So it's off most of the time anyways. I just like Apache better because it works as is. I followed some tutorial on how to reduce Apache's mem limit because I'm the only one who access it. It only use 1 or 2 php page, it doesn't do anything big at all.
    What I did do though is try creating a separate 5$ droplet and ran the bot on there. The were little to no lag or choking. so I'm assuming that a 5$ server is not enough for the bot.

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