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You’re already using blue/green for deployments, so why not:

* replace the currently inactive server with a smaller instance

* swap to the new instance and test the load

* replace the second server

For such a small app I’d drop the blue/green (most deploys will likely only take a few seconds?) and host Postgres on the same server.

Also, I’d move metabase onto a DO instance.

Any reason you’re using DNSSimple over a cheaper provider (or free in the case of DO)?



These are all my suggestions, I would also add look for ways to spread out tasks to other smaller VMs - the general pricing is +$5 "per" ($5 per +1 vCPU, $5 per +2G vRAM), a $5/$10 webserver only handle static asset delivery, then apps on middle tier app servers at $15/$20 would give better fault tolerance and spread out the load and still keep blue/green.




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