Daily Unresponsive Server $5 Ubuntu, 1GB Ram, 1vCPU, 40GB SSD

Are you running everything (database, web server, etc) on the same machine?

I've found that the lower tier configurations don't have enough memory to handle a database & web server at the same time.

You might be able to mitigate the problem by adding a swap partition. I blogged about it here: https://geekyramblings.net/lightsail-swap

David G wrote:
Are you running everything (database, web server, etc) on the same machine?

I've found that the lower tier configurations don't have enough memory to handle a database & web server at the same time.

You might be able to mitigate the problem by adding a swap partition. I blogged about it here: https://geekyramblings.net/lightsail-swap

We recently had a similar situation on a lower config and discovered it was the file/db backups, they were filling up the 40gb. Removing older ones and reducing the number of backups stored fixed the issue. Even visiting the backups page in Plesk would use up all the swap memory. We use Plesk/Ubuntu for pretty much all our Wordpress sites.

Thanks you all, I will try to lower my memory usage and check on the backup.
This is a brand new WordPress I literally created a few days ago.
Its technically a development site so no traffic.
Before this I was using Bitnami Wordpress and since it didnt have any issues I didnt expect it to crash if I create a wordpress from scratch.
The con of using "Bitnami all in one wordpress package" is it hard to upgrade specific library such as PHP, Apache etc