Load (cpu and memory) was significantly lower than I expected
Didn’t expect anything specific for load, but more load than what I did see, for sure.
A post I made hit the front page of HackerNews the other day. Here’s the discussion at HackerNews. Traffic was steady, For about five hours, there were between 50 and 250 users on the site at any given time.
I use two DigitalOcean droplets, one running Apache 2, the other for MySQL (mostly). The Apache 2 droplet is a 2GB droplet in the NYC2 datacenter and the MySQL droplet is a 1GB droplet in the same datacenter. They talk to each other over a private network.
I’ve really liked the setup so far, and without any tweaks to Apache or MySQL, both servers have performed quite well. I use a WordPress caching plugin and CloudFlare, but that’s all there is for caching.
Eventually, one could expect thousands of users on a site at any given time. That greatly depends on the type of site, though.
At that point, you’d probably need the power of Nginx, using it as a front-end (reverse) proxy to Apache.
I’m going to setup a DigitalOcean droplet to serve as a reverse proxy in the event I need to serve massive amounts of traffic. It’s sole job will be to run Nginx.
I simply don’t need it right now, though. Unless this hits the front page of HackerNews and makes it further up the page. ;). Then I’ll be scrambling to get that Nginx box up. So, put me to work later.
I didn’t receive any alerts from New Relic, Mist.io, or Uptime Robot, so all was good. I am, however, still going to prep some kind of solution with Nginx sitting in front of Apache, to at least serve static files.
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