Quote Originally Posted by RRWH View Post
So, short answer is you do not need to upgrade at the moment.

Long answer is NEVER upgrade without knowing the reason for excessive resource usage.
Yes RRWH, salmanpasta doesn't look like he needs a server upgrade at the moment since we were able to block a lot of unnecessary bot requests from happening anymore.

I can't agree with you more that you shouldn't simply throw more hardware at an issue, without a good understanding of what's really causing the excessive usage. If you run a server you should get really good and comfortable with being connected via SSH and looking at the requests happening in your access logs. I can't even count the number of times like in this case where telling a few bots to stop slamming your server can decrease the average usage dramatically.