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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by awesome_dude on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:02PM (#45664144)
IME SWAP has been explicitly disabled by the VPS providers.

Partly it's a money thing (they want to sell you RAM), partly it's so that the shared disk isn't getting thrashed by multiple VPS

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Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server by efreak on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:02AM (#45666094)
Get better VPS then. Openvz and other kernel paravirtualization have limits, go for Xen or KVM instead (Xen has paravirtualization as well, but I'm not sure how much it's actually used). Full virtualization (implemented by Xen and KVM) do not allow you to prevent swap from being used.
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