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Re:Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? by ianseyler on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:15PM (#46815065)
Can we get smaller VM hosts? I’ve seen some minimums at 512MB for a host. I need 8MB at most sometimes.

Update: Fourplex (this host) uses a 1GB minimum.

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Re:Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? by kube-system on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:44PM (#46819615)
What's the use case for a VM with 8MB memory?
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Re:Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? by ianseyler on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:45PM (#46820309)
A simple web server with some static content to server.
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Re:Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? by kube-system on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:03PM (#46820394)
Running on what?... a quarter-century old linux kernel and busybox?
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Re:Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? by ianseyler on Saturday January 31, 2026 @12:11PM (#46838480)
http://baremetal.returninfinity.com
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Re:Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? by lachiflippi on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:27AM (#46822296)
Running modern full-fat Linux on anything sub-512MB isn't a great experience unless you're willing to do a lot of tweaking, or running specialized distros like alpine. If dropping the whole "vm" thing is an option, you can go much lower -- I've been running perfectly usable alpine lxc system containers on as low as 32MB -- though container-based vps kind of fell out of favor in the last couple years, probably due to the issues that come with not having your "own" kernel in "your" vps. Virtuozzo/openvz was everywhere back then, now it's pretty much all kvm/vmware/hyperv.
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