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I could suggest first adding some extra RAM to your Droplet to make sure that you have enough for the other services as well, after that you could take a look at this answer here on how to tweak your MySQL database:
Also another thing that you could consider is using the DigitalOcean Managed MySQL databases which would allow you to quickly and easily spin up a high-performance MySQL cluster:
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I could suggest first adding some extra RAM to your Droplet to make sure that you have enough for the other services as well, after that you could take a look at this answer here on how to tweak your MySQL database:
Also another thing that you could consider is using the DigitalOcean Managed MySQL databases which would allow you to quickly and easily spin up a high-performance MySQL cluster:
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby