I just hit my CPU cap on the Digital Ocean 2GB/2xCPU plan

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• Discourse is CPU-expensive compared to static forum software such as SMF etc.
• Server costs are going down. See new ScaleWay intensive load offers.
• If you have serious traffic, you can compensate the server cost with AdSense.
• Your load depends on your user behavioral patterns. Ours is quite different to nerd communities, as we are a sports fan community and the real world drives our traffic with real world events of different magnitudes.

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Optimizing the number of Unicorns and buffer size

I know that Discourse setup provides sane defaults for most occasions nowadays, but I still want to ask some guidance on optimal settings. It seems that we will get a hosting partner that provides us with the server and what is on the table is this VPS: 6x vCore CPUs (Xeons @ 2.40GHz, I beleive) 8GB of RAM My primary goal is to tweak the settings for maximum capability of handling traffic spikes, ie. concurrent users. How would you experts set the number of unicorns and the size of the databa…