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Opmize for high traffic

Posted December 14, 2020 534 views
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Hello, I use digital ocean ubuntu 5$ droplet. I want to optimize it for high traffic. not to crash or slow the website when it gets high spikes of traffic. How do i Find out If I need to change something? and what Should I change to have max stable and fast working website without any slowing downs or breaks and crashes. Thanks

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bobbyiliev December 14, 2020

Hi there @levanmirvelashvili,

There are different things that you could do to optimize your server:

  • As the $5 Droplet has 1GB of RAM I could suggest starting with adding a SWAP file so that you could have some buffer. You can follow the steps on how to do here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-20-04

  • After that, if you are using Nginx as your web server, you could follow the steps on how to optimize it here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-optimize-nginx-configuration

  • Then make sure that MySQL is also optimized by following the steps here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-optimize-mysql-with-query-cache-on-ubuntu-18-04

  • Another thing that I could suggest is going through this tutorial on 5 ways to improve your setup:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/5-ways-to-improve-your-production-web-application-server-setup

A few other things that I could suggest:

  • Make sure to use a CDN to offload some of the load from your server
  • Optimize your website, if you are using a CMS like WordPress, make sure to install a caching plugin

Hope that this helps.
Regards,
Bobby

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