Web app performance

Hi there,

I recently had a similar discussion about a Laravel app here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/why-is-my-new-scaled-droplet-16gb-ram-8-vcpus-is-4-times-slower-than-the-old-one

In general, scaling up your Droplet should generally result in better performance. However in some cases, right after a restart of your server, all of the cache would have been cleared, which could result in a temporary poor performance while all the cache rebuilds.

Can you share here a bit more insights on the following:

• How exactly are you measuring the performance?
• What is your exact resource utilization? Sometimes the bottleneck could be the application itself rather than the size of the server.
• What is your exact tech stack? In most cases, it could be just a matter of tweaking a specific service, like MySQL for example.
• Is your new Droplet in the same region as the old one?
• Is your new Droplet is on a shared CPU plan compared to a dedicated CPU plan of your old droplet?

The more information that you could share the better.

But in general, I would recommend checking your resource utilization and see what processes are utilizing the most resources:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-find-the-processes-that-are-consuming-the-most-server-resources

That way you could pin point if the problem is caused by a specific process or service.

Also, if you are using MySQL follow the steps here on how to tweak it for better performance:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-tweak-mysql-mariadb-configuration-for-increased-performance-and-stability

- Bobby

Heya,

It’s not just about updating your Droplet, you’ll need to optimize both the Droplet and the App.

As Bobby has mentioned, it would be a good idea to check the other question as there it has been explained more in depth what you can further do to make your app smoother and faster.