That's bollocks. I've got a 4GB server which runs 5 production services, and (maximally) 20 test services, and only one of those ever goes over 40MB, and then d

That's bollocks. I've got a 4GB server which runs 5 production services, and (maximally) 20 test services, and only one of those ever goes over 40MB, and then drops below that again. The production services handle about 65k requests per day. Not much, but it shows that you can easily run go applications in less than 2GB.