# Pros and cons of installing multiple Ghost sites on one Digital Ocean droplet **URL:** \ **Category:** Developer help\ **Created:** [January 17, 2019, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108 "2019-01-17T04:29:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DonaldH](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/donaldh/32/13880_2.png) [@DonaldH](https://forum.ghost.org/u/DonaldH)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/1 "2019-01-17T04:29:14Z")
Please bear with me because I’m a beginner. I’m currently running one site which I’ve installed using Digital Ocean’s one-click app, on the smallest droplet ($5/month). I’ve seen some mentions of installing multiple Ghost sites on a single droplet. My preference is to use a single droplet for each website I build, for the sake of simplicity, unless it’s quite simple and for some other reason preferable to put, say, ten different sites on a single droplet (I do plan to build quite a few). On a related note, how many visitors could I expect to have on my site at one time (the one currently on a $5/month droplet) before it crashed or slowed to a halt? Any advice would be much appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![dsecareanu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/dsecareanu/32/413_2.png) [@dsecareanu](https://forum.ghost.org/u/dsecareanu)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/2 "2019-01-17T10:13:40Z")
I currently run several Ghost blogs and several WordPress sites on the same t2.small in AWS so it’s definitely doable if you do not have sites with thousands of daily users. Overall there is no issue running several sites on the same droplet, it makes managing them slightly easier (1 server instead of many), but can be automated with the likes of ansible or other devops tools. ---
**Author:** ![DonaldH](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/donaldh/32/13880_2.png) [@DonaldH](https://forum.ghost.org/u/DonaldH)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/3 "2019-01-17T17:33:10Z")
Thanks @dsecareanu. At the moment I have a few blogs installed on separate Digital Ocean droplets. Would it be difficult to move them all onto one droplet sometime in the future? And is there a good way of estimating what size droplet I would need based on expected traffic? ---
**Author:** ![dsecareanu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/dsecareanu/32/413_2.png) [@dsecareanu](https://forum.ghost.org/u/dsecareanu)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/4 "2019-01-17T20:36:41Z")
If they are Ghost blogs, it shouldn’t be hard. Just export and then import into newly setup blog. [https://docs.ghost.org/faq/the-importer/](https://docs.ghost.org/faq/the-importer/) If some other tech, then just copy files and dump database and move them over to new server. ---
**Author:** ![antonkristensen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/antonkristensen/32/2298_2.png) [@antonkristensen](https://forum.ghost.org/u/antonkristensen)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/5 "2019-01-18T23:10:25Z")
Just use docker containers 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![luciandavidescu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/luciandavidescu/32/2270_2.png) [@luciandavidescu](https://forum.ghost.org/u/luciandavidescu)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/6 "2019-01-19T14:43:17Z")
I was able to easily survive a peak of about 100k page loads in a day, with a max of around 1500 “live visitors” reported by google analytics at some point, on a $5 Vultr droplet - similar to Digital Ocean’s. It was wordpress running under nginx and php 7.0, with cloudflare in front - from ghost you should expect similar or better performance if everything else is done properly. ---
**Author:** ![joncojonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@joncojonathan](https://forum.ghost.org/u/joncojonathan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/7 "2019-01-20T16:19:39Z")
I’m only hosting a single Ghost blog on mine but I can’t see why it wouldn’t work - just make sure you configure each instance on its own port and proxy it with Nginx / Apache accordingly. You might want to look into something like CloudFlare too, to reduce the overhead on the Droplet. The free tier allows you to protect and cache a single site, so perhaps use that with the blog receiving most traffic. Paid plans give you more options and sites of course. ---
**Author:** ![joncojonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@joncojonathan](https://forum.ghost.org/u/joncojonathan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/8 "2019-01-20T16:20:29Z")
Just spotted this thread which may be of use too: > [@Having two Ghost sites on the same server](https://forum.ghost.org/t/having-two-ghost-sites-on-the-same-server/5146): > > Hi there, I was just trying out Ghosts + Gatsby via a DigitalOcean Ghost image. The setup was sweet! I’d like to know if there’s a good way of having multiple Ghost sites on the same server. I’d only plan to use Ghost as a headless CMS via Gatsby. ---
**Author:** ![bershatsky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/bershatsky/32/2257_2.png) [@bershatsky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/bershatsky)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/9 "2019-01-21T02:50:03Z")
I too would like to do this, but I am not sure at all where to begin. I’ve got my blog up and running on one droplet in Digital Ocean (I used the one click install). Now what? ---
**Author:** ![dsecareanu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/dsecareanu/32/413_2.png) [@dsecareanu](https://forum.ghost.org/u/dsecareanu)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/10 "2019-01-21T07:57:16Z")
This can be a good starting point: > **[How To Serve Multiple Ghost Blogs on One VPS Using Nginx Server Blocks |...](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-serve-multiple-ghost-blogs-on-one-vps-using-nginx-server-blocks)** > > Ghost is a blogging platform focused on easy content creation and beautiful presentation. In this guide, we will discuss how to host multiple Ghost blogs on… ---
**Author:** ![eexit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/eexit/32/15583_2.png) [@eexit](https://forum.ghost.org/u/eexit)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/11 "2019-01-23T09:31:32Z")
I’m also hosting two Ghost blogs on a small DO droplet and this is totally fine. Sure, there’s not a lot of traffic but it’s enough. However my droplet is running with RancherOS and all my websites are docker container so it’s very easy to manage… Even with Let’s Encrypt 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/pros-and-cons-of-installing-multiple-ghost-sites-on-one-digital-ocean-droplet/5108/12 "2019-02-06T09:31:32Z")
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