The best plan for a video and audio streaming app and website.

Hi @richardit,

Are you sure it’s due to a lack of RAM or as a whole lack of resources? I think before upgrading you should try and find the reason behind the issues. For instance, do you see a pattern when videos are not working properly, when they do, can you spot high load on your Droplet or can you see something else? Where is your Droplet located and from where you are accessing the videos?

I think those questions should be answered before upgrading the Droplet.

Having said that, you can always try to upgrade to the next Droplet and if it works, that’s great. If you still experience issues, you can always upgrade once more until you find the right package for you.

We do have resources on this topic which you can check here

https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/streaming

https://www.digitalocean.com/resources/article/improve-performance-media-streaming

If you’re planning on using our Spaces product you can consider the following information.

Spaces are designed for storing and serving moderate to large files. Files 20 MB to 200 MB in size will give the best performance for both writes and reads. Additionally, combining small files into one larger file will greatly reduce the overall number of requests to your Space compared to handling many small files individually.

How Do I Implement This?

When uploading files larger than 500 MB, you should use multi-part uploads.

We recommend combining files less than 1 MB together into a single, larger file. How you do this will be specific to your particular files and use case, but one example is concatenating daily log files into a monthly file.

Hope that this helps!