[devlopr]

Simple advise. Start with a 5 dollar droplet and increase ram / disk speed when required. If you reach 64 gigs consider spliting.

What I do is put my database on a droplet and my files on another and it can handles millions of requests. Put them on the same machine and I need to increase ram higher than the cost of multiple small droplets.

If you ever reach those limits consider setting up a load balancer.

[tkinom]

In https://www.code-scope.com, the source code search engine database is in the same $5 droplet that run webserver - We are cheap. It is part of <10MB app which hopefully anyone can download soon. We figured the SSD can do 1-3GBs/second transfer, no point to slow it down with separate process or worst, separate network node.

All the web queries are responded in <<< 1 second - so far....