My $6/month DigitalOcean WordPress droplet (Premium AMD CPU, 1GB RAM, 25GB NVMe SSD) is suffering high memory usage and sometimes would return “Error establishing a database connection” message. I would also get “Error 521: Web server is down” from CloudFlare. Check memory usage Optimize MySQL with MySQLTuner Download and run I would get an error… Continue reading Optimizing DigitalOcean’s WordPress 1-click app droplet