Getting the most out of a 1 GB VPS
A 1 GB VPS is plenty if you stop installing things you don't need. My rule: every running service has to justify its memory.
Small wins
- Lower
vm.swappinessso it doesn't thrash early - Drop the services that came pre-enabled and nobody asked for
- Prefer one process that does a job well over three that overlap
None of this is clever. It just adds up.
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