Performance on Luis Sousa Blog https://89393b0c.nuvai-blog.pages.dev/tags/performance/ Recent content in Performance on Luis Sousa Blog Hugo en Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 How We Sped Up Our Travel Blog (Without Changing Hosts) https://89393b0c.nuvai-blog.pages.dev/posts/how-we-sped-up-our-travel-blog/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://89393b0c.nuvai-blog.pages.dev/posts/how-we-sped-up-our-travel-blog/ <p>We run a travel blog at <a href="https://joyofexploringtheworld.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joyofexploringtheworld.com</a> that helps travellers plan itineraries—hosted on a low-cost VPS with Docker Compose and Cloudflare’s free tier. Here are four changes that improved speed without changing hosts or paying for premium plugins.</p> <h2 id="1-give-the-database-more-memory"> 1. Give the database more memory <a class="heading-link" href="#1-give-the-database-more-memory"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>On a 24 GB VPS, MariaDB’s default InnoDB buffer pool (~128 MB) was too small. We increased it to 2 GB and set a 4 GB memory limit on the DB container. Redis’s <code>maxmemory</code> was raised from 1 GB to 2 GB.</p> How We Speeded Up Our Travel Blog (Without Changing Hosts) https://89393b0c.nuvai-blog.pages.dev/posts/how-we-speeded-up-our-travel-blog/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://89393b0c.nuvai-blog.pages.dev/posts/how-we-speeded-up-our-travel-blog/ <p>We run a travel blog at <a href="https://joyofexploringtheworld.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joyofexploringtheworld.com</a> that helps travellers plan itineraries—hosted on a low-cost VPS with Docker Compose and Cloudflare’s free tier. Here are four changes that improved speed without changing hosts or paying for premium plugins.</p> <h2 id="1-give-the-database-more-memory"> 1. Give the database more memory <a class="heading-link" href="#1-give-the-database-more-memory"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>On a 24 GB VPS, MariaDB’s default InnoDB buffer pool (~128 MB) was too small. We increased it to 2 GB and set a 4 GB memory limit on the DB container. Redis’s <code>maxmemory</code> was raised from 1 GB to 2 GB.</p>