I noticed that at leastr some of the pages in my (newly installed) discourse forum are quite slow to load: [image] Currently I’m on a 1GB digital ocean droplet and have a WP site on the same droplet, but with no traffic yet, so I am wondering whether upgrading to 2GB RAM would noticeably improve a…

This means you have PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, nginx/Apache as reverse proxy and Wordpress, possibly with plugins, on a 1 GB droplet together with Discourse? Or is this all shared or provided by other droplets? If everything is hosted on a single System, you should really check your memory usage under som…

Note, that mini profiler time is showing 14 reqs took 2.5 secs, if you click it expands to add individual reqs

[image] Lutz: This means you have PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, nginx/Apache as reverse proxy and Wordpress, possibly with plugins, on a 1 GB droplet together with Discourse? Or is this all shared or provided by other droplets? Yes, all that on one droplet together with discourse. So here is my memory …

[image] tophee: I guess that means I do have some “memory pressure”, right? Maybe, maybe not. Since you’ve got a reasonable amount of memory available and used by cache, things aren’t as dire as they might appear. Without traffic, it’s nearly impossible to tell whether you’ll have problems.…

This question has unintentionally resurfaced in another topic and, after some more testing, the answer there is pretty clear: for running Wordpress and Discourse on the same server, 1GB is not enough: [image] Is 1GB RAM enough for both WordPress and Discourse? Self-hosting …

How much of a performance booster is 2GB vs 1GB RAM?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) February 26, 2017, 11:37pm 2

Not much unless you have memory pressure. Memory pressure would come from a large database or many active simultaneous users.

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How much of a performance booster is 2GB vs 1GB RAM?

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