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MySQL occasionally crashing
- Posted March 10, 2014
Im running an ecommerce Wordpress site on a 512mb vps. I occasionally get messages that say “this page is unavailable, try again later” and MySQL occasionally crashes and I have to restart the service. Anybody know why this could be? the database is 20mb
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I would add swap space to your server, for me, this fixed the issue I as having. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-12-04
@Josh Frye <br> <br>I’ll give it a shot thank you! Do you know of any ways to optimize memory usage?
I would assume that you are probably running out of memory due to running so many services on such little ram. Try resizing your droplet to 1gb and see if the problem goes away.