I can recall it being important in the past. Used to do a lot of work with the "cheap" Digital Ocean instances, which were 512M RAM at the time (like 2015-2017

I can recall it being important in the past. Used to do a lot of work with the "cheap" Digital Ocean instances, which were 512M RAM at the time (like 2015-2017). You could get more usefulness out of them running 32-bit OS builds.