u/ishrargo

Hey everyone,

I run a WordPress site where I sell my own plugins (not huge traffic yet, around ~7k visitors/month). Currently planning to move to DigitalOcean and trying to figure out the right setup.

My main questions:

• Is a 2 vCPU / 4GB RAM droplet enough for this kind of workload?
• Is it okay to run MySQL on the same droplet, or should I consider a managed database?
• Any recommended stack? (NGINX vs OpenLiteSpeed, caching, Redis, etc.)
• How does this setup usually handle plugin downloads + some logged-in users?
• Rough monthly cost I should realistically expect?

I’m comfortable managing a server but don’t want to overcomplicate things or overspend at this stage.

Would really appreciate hearing from people running similar setups 🙏