By jaimeloci
I’m thinking about using memcached and before reading https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/running-memcache-on-separate-droplet-worth-it I didn’t think of running memcached on a separate droplet/server.
Given, for example, that I had a 2GB droplet and would like to give memcached 2GB (just for keeping simple this example), what would you think of getting another 2GB droplet? and of having only one droplet but x2 capacity (4GB)?
Informed advice is much appreciated. Thanks!
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It depends on the amount of load you’re going to put the servers through. What are you hosting on your servers? Website(s)? App(s)? Mostly static content? Or, mostly dynamic?
I’ll be hosting a dynamic website with more read than write operations, kind of news site. Users will be able to log in but I expect to have anonymous traffic mainly.
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