Is Railway suitable for a WordPress site?
I'm starting to develop a wordpress ecommerce site for a side project I run and I'm curious if Railway is best suited for this use case? I'm seeing usage spike to 4gb of RAM and the site's very slow even with just myself on editing the the theme 🤔
I get the impression that Railway is meant for many small services rather than single beefy instances such as a wordpress web worker, is that a correct assumption?
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@gridonyx - you run wordpress on railway, costs aside, how is performance?
performance is spectacular, been running it since about August, no issues with load times or anything
awesome, thanks
wordpress is just nginx and php, I can't call that "beefy" and to me, it spiking to 4gb is a red flag that something is done wrong
usually when i see crazy resource usage on wordpress it's caused by a plugin
or some third-party essentially doing a DoS
usually databases with static use for me
Hmmm interesting. I'm using Avada website builder on Wordpress and nothing else just yet. Maybe it's building out themes and whatnot that are spiking memory usage. I'll keep trying.
Avada can be a little resource heavy on occasion, but I do run a wordpress site for a company using Avada and WooCommerce on a digitalocean droplet that only had 1vCPU and 1GB of memory for the longest time. Just had to resize the droplet to 2GB of memory though within the past week.
But definitely keep an eye on it, and see if it gets any worse, better, or stays the same.
Is there anyway to tune the MySQL costs? I have a low traffic site that is costing me $8/mo on Railway, when it would be overprovisioned on a $5/mo Digital ocean VPS.
yes there is, please open a new #✋｜help thread