512mb is probably fine if you setup swap and don't have a lot of traffic. If you get busy you will start running into issues. Rebuilding uses quite a bit of memory as well. Just run it and monitor your memory if you run into issues you can upgrade.
Installing Wordpress and NodeBB on Digital Ocean
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@MarximusMG yep you can go with that setup. If you want to try hard then configure your system like this:
- NGINX with HTTP/2 support & PageSpeed
- Memcached (for PageSpeed)
- MariaDB (MySQL replacement)
- HHVM (PHP replacement)
- MongoDB
This setup should offer an even greater performance
Only NGINX is going to be a bit difficuilt as you have to compile it from Source, if you want to use HTTP/2. Otherwise you can use the pre-compiled version with PageSpeed from RTCamp. -
@AOKP as mentioned earlier, I'd like to put in the additional effort wherever possible if there's going to be a noticeable advantage longterm. I'm not into shortcutting things. Problem is, half of your most recent post references things that are completely foreign to me.
I'll give it a shot, though!
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@AOKP @Danny-McWilliams Do either of you have experience using EasyEngine to do what I'm trying to do? Just came across it and it seems like it's made for someone like me who's a bit overwhelmed with the steps necessary to have WordPress running on NGINX, but I don't know if there's an obvious downside I'm missing.
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@MarximusMG seems interesting, never tried it though. In your case you maybe really want to go with it, unless you want to gain some "manual" experience.
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@MarximusMG well I think it is rather about personal preference here. I like to compile everything myself and scale it how I want, 100% after my own needs/configs.
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@MarximusMG mind sharing it with us?
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@AOKP nothing really to share with the site yet, but if you're asking about the issue, this is what I'm struggling with.
