Run Ghost on 1GB RAM without getting stuck - Solution 🥳

[markstos]

@bastien

Are mySQL and Nginx important in this optimization process? Cloudflare also ? Here is a topic where @jazmy is mentioning these points.

Yes, tuning both MySQL and Nginx can improve performance when memory is low. There are some detailed things to change about MySQL here and I’ve left comments to explain what they do. Note they are almost all trade-offs that use more CPU or Disk I/O to use less memory:

Running Ghost on 1GB RAM - mySQL fix

I made an annotated guide to the tuning settings posted above. This is not an endorsement of them, just explaining how the defaults were changed and what the impact might be. Generally, it seems they try to trade lower memory use for increased disk I/O or higher CPU load. It’s not clear which settings are really making the most impact without testing them. One setting that would be a “win-win” for personal blog would be turn down the max_connections. I’m running 5 blogs one 2 GB memory instanc…

Nginx can also be tuned to deliver more performance and save CPU by example having Nginx serve static files directly or by having Nginx work as cache. Optimizations are often about trade-offs, and saving CPU like that means storing more content cached in memory for fast retrieval. Cloudfare’s CDN service could also further reduce CPU through caching.

@bastien

A. Docker: I own 4 Ghost blogs, one n8n, one Baserow, 1 cal.com. All these tools are open source and Docker compatible. Is it worth it to stick to it? Will it be cheaper ? more efficient ? I’m afraid it’s too technical for me. But in the end I wonder if this is not the solution I should go for. Any help is welcome. I can also pay for this topic.

Docker can be technical and complex to manage. But if are asking if it’s a better idea to have four small servers or one big one, having one big one will allow you to share memory and CPU between the instances. That will smoother over some performance problems and likely cost less overall. The trade-off is that if you break the system, all the blogs go down.