Title: Right configuration
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Right configuration

 *  [rohitmanglik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rohitmanglik/)
 * (@rohitmanglik)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/right-configuration/)
 * Hi,
 * I am using AWS (setup through Bitmani) – macro instance (VPS – 1GB RAM).
 * I enabled Disk cache for Database and Object cache. After that my CPU spiked 
   from 10-20% to 100% for 20mins and then it was consistently using 50-70%. Now
   my CPU credit balance is completely exhausted :(.
 * I Googled for optimal usage guidelines but haven’t found something good.
 * Considering all modules can be installed in my instance, what is the optimal 
   setting for following features?
 * 1) Page Cache module
    2) Database Cache module 3) Object Cache module 4) Minify
   module
 * Which one should I use- Disk or APC or eAccelerator etc something else for above
   options? Because of wrong settings my server was screwed and I had a huge downtime
   🙁
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [Scott Hartley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/destac/)
 * (@destac)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/right-configuration/#post-7375201)
 * Don’t run object cache through disk thats not good. The same goes for database
   caching on complicated websites you could generate 12k + inodes and this will
   cause cpu spikes.
 * Run them through APC/MemCache or use a redis cache.
 *  Thread Starter [rohitmanglik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rohitmanglik/)
 * (@rohitmanglik)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/right-configuration/#post-7375202)
 * Thanks [@destac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/destac/). I updated the 
   settings of Object and Database to APC.
 * What shall be the cache method for Minify and Page Cache in EC2 macro instance?
   Shall I make everything APC?

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 * [database cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-cache/)
 * [objectcache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/objectcache/)

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 * Last reply from: [rohitmanglik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rohitmanglik/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/right-configuration/#post-7375202)
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