One of my sites awhile back started having memory issues, MySQL seemed to be crashing because it would run out of memory whenever it was being hit too hard. Originally I thought it was just a database issue, but the site was really simple — wordpress powered, it shouldn’t be eating through that much ram that fast I thought. Eventually I came across an offhand comment about DigitalOcean not configuring swap memory files on their droplets (by default). Since one of DO’s features is that they host on Solid-State Drives, it means swap memory in comparison is much much faster Continue reading →