Title: WordPress Memory(RAM) Usage?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress Memory(RAM) Usage?

 *  [parton720](https://wordpress.org/support/users/parton720/)
 * (@parton720)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-memoryram-usage/)
 * Hello,
 * First let me start off by saying that I’m running a small control panel with 
   Apache, Bind, PowerDNS, ProFTP, Mail shit, etc… All on a small VPS right now.
   The current usage(with 8 wordpress sites, that have no traffic) is around 350mb…
   What kind of memory usage does/will wordpress end up using? For example, I could
   easily put all local(small traffic) sites on a smaller server(VPS), and put larger,
   more demanding sites on a bigger server… I just need to know what to expect out
   of wordpress. And what contributes the most to the memory usage. What can I do
   to optimize the sites?
 * Any help is appreciated..
    -Lane

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 *  [vrazer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vrazer/)
 * (@vrazer)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-memoryram-usage/#post-4640269)
 * Lane,
 * There’s no “normal” for WordPress sites. Every site is going to vary in terms
   of how much memory it uses based on what you have installed into the site. E.
   g. if you have a shopping cart plugin installed into WordPress or have 1000’s
   of posts then the site is going to consume more memory than if it’s a 10 page
   microsite.
 * If you need to control the memory use (e.g. to increase it) for some sites, you
   can adjust the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT settings in the wp-config.php file.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP)
 * If you’re just trying to balance the load across these sites, then you might 
   start by installing a WordPress caching plugin like W3 Total Cache. You can use
   the page cache and database/object caches to reduce the load on MySQL and Apache.
 * A CDN is also a good way to reduce load on the sites because it offloads the 
   work of delivering CSS, JS, images, videos, and other static files to different
   servers (so that the WordPress server is only serving WordPress)

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