How many Laravel projects can a digital ocean $6 droplet hold?

Hello everyone, I am planning to buy a Digital Ocean $6 droplet (1GB Ram & 1vCPU). I want to host multiple Laravel projects.

I will not have many concurrent online users at the same time. It will be like below 5-10 concurrent users at the same time including all websites hosted.

How many sites can this droplet hold? Thanks in advance

Sinnbeck

3 years ago

Level 102

That is really hard to say. If each site is just 1 or two pages that shows static content you can probably have several without much trouble. But if each site needs to accept uploads of video files daily from the users the server might be barely able to handle one site

Luckily servers can scale if you need more CPU or ram.

kokoshneta

3 years ago

Level 27

That depends at least partly on what you put in those apps… if your storage folder is 20 GB of large video files, then the answer is one (that may be quite sluggish). If your entire project is only 25 MB, then clearly a lot more than one.

I’m guessing RAM will probably be the biggest bottleneck, but I’ve never tried running multiple apps from a DO droplet, so I can’t say for sure. I run a single (very minimal and low-traffic) app on a similarly-specced Linode nanode, and while for some reason I can’t see RAM usage stats there, it hardly ever even reaches 1% CPU usage.

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