Question
Which size of droplet should i use for my web-site?
- Posted on January 23, 2014
Asked by hakan.snn
Hello there,
I have a question for you, actually i need help.
I have a web-site, which had 61.360 unique visitors and 1.307.283 page views in December 2013. For this web-site i have been using second plan of droplet on DigitalOcean which is 1 GB ram/1 cpu. But in january my hits increased %10 rate, so my web-site slowed down little bit.
Here is my question, can i solve that problem some server-side coding or do i have to increase/resize my droplet’s size.
Sorry for bad english, thanks for understanding.
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Hello, all
Choosing the right Droplet plan depends on your workload. An oversized Droplet would underuse its resources and cost more, but an undersized Droplet running at full CPU or memory would suffer from degraded performance or errors.
You can also resize a Droplet to a larger plan after creation, including resizing to a larger Droplet plan of a different kind. For example, you can resize from a Basic Droplet plan to a larger CPU-Optimized Droplet plan. See the Droplet pricing page for a full list of plans and prices.
You can always check our tutorial on Choosing the Right Droplet Plan
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/resources/choose-plan/
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
Looks like most of CPU usage is from MySQL. From this point you can consider analyzing which queries are taking too much time to run. Also, you can migrate just MySQL to another, larger server (you will get more CPU cores for the price).
Thank you so much.