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Is there any posibility to increase only the RAM, but leaving everything as is?
- Posted on May 9, 2025
- Cloud Computing
Asked by Kunal Das
I am currently hosting a wordpress site behind Nginx and running a smal NodeJS application along side. BUt I see that the RAM consumption is 90% already. is there any way to just increase the RAM?
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Heya,
You can only resize the RAM and CPU. Also, if you have your RAM at 90% it’s good practice to increase the CPU as well.
Heya, @kunaldas
Yes, you can upgrade the CPU and RAM only, or CPU, RAM and Disk
You can check our docs here:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/resize/#resizing-droplets-with-the-control-panel-api-or-cl
Regards