# Trellis - Digital Ocean Plan

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/trellis-digital-ocean-plan/6395
**Category:** trellis
**Created:** 2016-04-06T18:16:49Z
**Posts:** 6

## Post 1 by @bandwidther — 2016-04-06T18:16:50Z

Hello,

I’m going to be using Sage, Bedrock, Trellis with Digital Ocean as my host for the next site I’m working on and I’m wondering if the $5 / mo plan would be suitable? I’m not trying to be cheap haha but I’m doing this site for a friend and I want to cut down on their costs if possible.

The site is just going to be a basic small business site, nothing too fancy and I can’t imagine a huge amount of traffic will hit the site.

For reference here’s the price list: [https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/](https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/)

Thanks in advance.

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## Post 2 by @austin — 2016-04-06T18:25:41Z

$5/mo one is totally fine. Just turn on nginx caching.

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## Post 3 by @Foxaii — 2016-04-06T18:50:28Z

Nginx caching will make it a breeze, but it’s not entirely necessary on a basic, small to medium traffic site.

You can also easily resize your DO droplet up in a non-destructive way. Resizing down usually requires the box to be destroyed.

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## Post 4 by @bandwidther — 2016-04-06T21:31:10Z

Thank you @austin & @Foxaii for the replies, that’s good to know.

Should I still bother using a caching plugin such as wp super cache? Or perhaps something like Varnish? What would you consider to be best practice?

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## Post 5 by @ben — 2016-04-06T21:38:09Z

> [@bandwidther](#):
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> Should I still bother using a caching plugin such as wp super cache? Or perhaps something like Varnish? What would you consider to be best practice?

> [@bandwidther](#):
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> The site is just going to be a basic small business site, nothing too fancy and I can’t imagine a huge amount of traffic will hit the site.

In this case, just use the built in FastCGI caching: [FastCGI Caching | Trellis Docs | Roots](https://roots.io/trellis/docs/fastcgi-caching/)

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## Post 6 by @bandwidther — 2016-04-06T21:54:35Z

Thanks, Ben! :slight_smile: