Btw you're probably hitting PHP's memory cap, not your VPS's. Easy to bump up in
wp-config.php
! https://developer.wordpress.org/apis/wp-config-php/#increasing-memory-allocated-to-php
Aaaand there you have it. A simple fix that squeaked by me yet again. Forgot I didn’t install this instance with that PHP flag preset. Thanks for the sanity check– you have any more optimization to share?
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