Back in 2015 when cloud offerings were still marginally new, a lot of big providers were gettting into the game with Docker offerings (ie, IBM Bluemix) where th

Back in 2015 when cloud offerings were still marginally new, a lot of big providers were gettting into the game with Docker offerings (ie, IBM Bluemix) where the charge was based entirely on RAM*Hours. Naturally this lead to me gaming the system and making my docker images as in RAM usage small as possible. In the end I even abandoned SSH as too heavy and switched to shadowsocks (2MB resident) for networking the docker instances together.