1GB is an obscene amount of ram for a webapp, it's just that Ruby is a memory hog. You can run an Elixir webapp with much much less memory. See: http://www.lit

1GB is an obscene amount of ram for a webapp, it's just that Ruby is a memory hog. You can run an Elixir webapp with much much less memory. See: http://www.littlelines.com/blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-showdown-phoenix-vs-rails/ http://www.littlelines.com/blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-sh... tl:dr; Ruby/Rails: 235.37MB Elixir/Phoenix: 34.69MB