Tech Friday: PHP 8.3.33 updates and Linux server contemplation

Posted By on August 14, 2026

Nothing really earth shattering regarding a WordPress plug-in glitch requiring a PHP update earlier this week, but it did force me to tweak my “smallish” Digital Ocean server that really is in need of more RAM. But, since I offload image serving for the most part to a separate server and audio/video streaming to AWS for the most part, the WordPress demand and “bots from China, etc” hammering the server are the most pressing issues.

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Every process seems to wants more memory and even a quick chat with Claude AI is encouraging me to increase my droplet to 2 GB of RAM (currently 1GB). I’ve tried to improve efficiency by using SWAP and upgraded to a Premium AMD CPU and NVMe SSD which is better for SWAP, but a Wordfence process scanning will no longer complete the task under PHP 8.3 … even giving it more time. I’m going to set up a “pm = ondemand” to see what happens as things settle down … rather than doubling my monthly server costs.

Larger RAM, higher price

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