By hakansnn
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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I would try first inspect your Droplet’s CPU and memory usage. Try using htop - an interactive process viewer for Linux. <br> <br>So you can find out if you’re running out of memory (causing swap) or too much CPU processing (and what is using that resources). <br> <br>http://hisham.hm/htop/
I run top command from shell. Here’s the i got; <br> <br>[root@s ~]# top <br>top - 12:45:50 up 1 day, 5:31, 1 user, load average: 5.34, 5.40, 5.58 <br>Mem: 1020388k total, 880792k used, 139596k free, 61336k buffers <br>Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 413648k cached <br> <br> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND <br>20437 mysql 20 0 1048m 189m 7232 S 73.2 19.1 704:47.40 mysqld <br> 6701 apache 20 0 510m 20m 9236 S 1.3 2.0 0:00.26 httpd <br> 1139 admin 20 0 509m 21m 10m S 1.0 2.1 0:02.30 httpd <br> 4008 apache 20 0 508m 20m 10m S 1.0 2.0 0:01.31 httpd <br>
Looks like there’s quite a bit of load on the CPU. Try upgrading to a plan with more CPUs—does that help?
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