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Hi everyone, I’m running a small website on a basic DigitalOcean Droplet (1 GB RAM, Ubuntu, Nginx + PHP). The site works fine, but page load times feel inconsistent — sometimes fast, sometimes noticeably slow, even with low traffic.
I’ve already enabled basic caching and checked server load, which seems normal. Could this be related to Droplet size, disk I/O limits, or something in the web server configuration that I might be overlooking?
Any suggestions or common optimizations I should check first would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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This is actually pretty common on small Droplets. Even with low traffic, a 1 GB setup can feel inconsistent because there isn’t much room for PHP, the database, and the OS to breathe at the same time. When memory gets tight or the server briefly starts swapping, pages don’t get slower all the time — they get slow sometimes, which sounds like what you’re seeing.
It’s not always a misconfiguration. Small Droplets just have very little tolerance for small spikes in activity. If your config looks reasonable and caching is already on, moving to 2 GB RAM often makes things feel stable right away, even without changing anything else.
I’ve run into the same thing before and upgrading solved it.
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