LIGHTSAIL with 1GB Instance is slow. Why?

Question

Amazon LIGHTSAIL with 1 GB Instance is slow without any website, Plesk is not loading fast. Can I use light sail  for production? I need to move my client sites from media temple. Give me best solution

I was trying to load tools & settings. It does not load all the time, Some time it takes 4-5 sec

I mean, there is no site in them. Just basic Plesk panel

I am worried Light sail may not work for production even if I get 8gb instance? Someone with experience, help me and give your experience.

Accepted Answer

Running a web server and database server in a 1gb instance can put a lot of memory pressure on a VM.

Consider adding a swap partition to help relieve some of the pressure.

I blogged about it here: https://geekyramblings.net/lightsail-swap

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2Gb instance seems decent. That is min for apache website.

Answer

1GB Ram instance is very low for a website with database, it will put a lot load on CPU and will cross burstable zone. 
You can either add swap memory or upgrade instance

I have written a blog incase if anyone wants to refer: [https://codesparrk.com/blogs/aws-lightsail-with-1gb-instance-is-slow-why/]

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Lightsail is very unreliable, I'm running two identical lightweight servers on LightSail and EC2, every few months the LightSail server will suddenly slow to a crawl that my website times out. I check the CPU utilization and it's under 1%, the disk usage is extremely low, credits are at a 100%. There's something wrong with the LightSail infrastructure, either some other VM from another user is taking up all the resources and starting the other VM's sharing the hardware or their setup is buggy. The only solution I've found to this is to stop and restart the instance and then it becomes a 100% responsive instantly. My guess is after a stop/start it spins it up on a different underlying hardware. I've never had an issue with the EC2 instance but the Lightsail instance (all of them) like clockwork will slow to a crawl and eventually fail (yup, the alarms go off because it stop responding to Amazon's own monitoring system) and I have to stop/start them again to fix it (or if I leave it for a 12+ hours or a few days, it'll eventually come back online but that's not a solution). Something is VERY VERY broken about Lightsail and Amazon refuses to acknowledge or fix it. I've been reporting this for about 3 years now.

LIGHTSAIL with 1GB Instance is slow. Why?

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