[diggan]

> Running a database accessed that many times on a $4 Digital Ocean droplet?

How many times per second is the DB actually accessed? As far as I can tell my the metrics, they're doing ~1.7 requests/minute, you'll have a hard time finding a DB that couldn't handle that.

In fact, I'd bet you'd be able to host that website (the database) in a text file on disk without any performance issues whatsoever.