Still running 10$ VPS at DigitalOcean, I started to experience slow loading a few days ago. Not only do I understand that the VPS is the minimal recommended one, but I can also see there is lack of space. Running just around 400 users and just 50 of them being active, I’m confused whether it is disk…

Try running: ./launcher cleanup

The general answer to this question is to look at your Digital Ocean droplet graphs: [image] (above is the last year of http://discourse.codinghorror.com ) Anything weird with Disk or CPU, super high peaks, you need to upsize your droplet. Remember when you upsize the droplet to increase the num…

How can I check if my Discourse is overloaded and needs an upgrade?

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ljpp (ljpp) February 18, 2016, 7:58am 8

@meglio connect to your VPS via SSH, run top and see whats happening. Maybe even report here.

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