Wordpress website <200 visit per day consume 1.5gb ram constantly

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Use php-fpm and tweak it to release memory quicker than usual.

Slow sites with mpm_prefork

Server will crash under high load only if you run out of memory and there is too much disk thrashing. I was mentioning in an earlier post that I have hosted on a Virtualmin server lots of WordPress website for a computer training institute for students to use while they learn website design. The load on the server for most hours of the day is minimal but for the two hours in a day when the course is being conducted, over 100 students log in simultaneously and carry out the same operations as t…