I recently upgraded my droplet from 2 processors and 4gb memory to 4 processors and 8gb memory and now I notice that my application is running slower than before. What could be the cause of this decrease in performance?
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Heya,
It’s not just about updating your Droplet, you’ll need to optimize both the Droplet and the App.
As Bobby has mentioned, it would be a good idea to check the other question as there it has been explained more in depth what you can further do to make your app smoother and faster.
Hi there,
I recently had a similar discussion about a Laravel app here:
In general, scaling up your Droplet should generally result in better performance. However in some cases, right after a restart of your server, all of the cache would have been cleared, which could result in a temporary poor performance while all the cache rebuilds.
Can you share here a bit more insights on the following:
The more information that you could share the better.
But in general, I would recommend checking your resource utilization and see what processes are utilizing the most resources:
That way you could pin point if the problem is caused by a specific process or service.
Also, if you are using MySQL follow the steps here on how to tweak it for better performance:
- Bobby