Why does the one-click wordpress install needs 30GB disk space

Hi Stevan,

We’ve restricted the WordPress one-click to the 1GB/30GB droplet not because of any storage limitation, but instead for memory reasons. WordPress running on Apache/MySQL tends to use a lot of memory, and 512mb isn’t always enough. In order to ensure a smoother experience for users using the one-click, we’ve restricted it to only be usable on the 1GB droplet, or larger.

The WordPress one-click isn’t all that different from deploying WordPress yourself: we just did most of the work for you. It doesn’t use any additional space (about 1.8GB is used by the OS, supporting libraries, and WordPress itself), has sendmail pre-configured, and is pretty much ready to use out of the box. php5-curl isn’t included, but it’s not a direct dependency for WordPress either.

When you deploy your own WordPress install, you can optimize it specifically for your needs, use a stack other than LAMP, and deploy it on the smaller, 512mb droplet. It’s just a bit more work on your part.

All of our One-Clicks are based on Ubuntu LTS releases, since most users are familiar with Ubuntu. We haven’t seen much demand for other distros used as the base for one-clicks, and when we had other distros as bases, they mostly went unused. You may want to check out our GitHub repository for User-Data Scripts, however. It contains additional scripts you can use at Droplet creation to deploy different applications and stacks to a Droplet using the distribution of your choice. Here’s the WordPress script for CentOS 7, for instance.

Finally, if you feel more comfortable using a 512mb droplet, you can absolutely do so. We recommend the 1GB one since we’ve seen better performance with at least 1GB of memory, but it’s really up to you. However, keep in mind that you cannot really compare a VPS to a Shared host. A VPS (like our Droplets) has a lot more overhead, since you’re running an entire server.

I hope that helped clear things up! Let me know if I missed anything. :)

Best, Eris Platform Support Specialist

@eris “Wordpress 4.7 on 16.04” is now available for the first plan, why does this differ? Thanks in advance!

Hi Erin

Thanks for your serious response!

You say that it is because of RAM and it obiously is but on the “create droplet” page if you select the 5$ plan and hover over the one-click install from wordpress it states “please select a disk size of at least 30gb” which is kind of mishinting to the real reason.

The second question left is why don’t leave the RAM issue with wordpress to the user, for most microblogs it would be sufficent.

thanks for the link to the centos!

Can we somehow compare a shared host’s RAM to a VPS’s RAM considering the overhead you mentioned?

Thanks for your time and knowledge :) Regards