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It's still just 512 megs of RAM. I'd love to find a VPS provider that gives me like 2 gigs of RAM, and charged me by how much of that was hot during the month.
by epaulson 14y ago
It's still just 512 megs of RAM. I'd love to find a VPS provider that gives me like 2 gigs of RAM, and charged me by how much of that was hot during the month. It's frustrating to have to pay in advance for the maximum amount of RAM I might need.
I'd like to be able to leave processes running that might have a lot of data mapped into their address spaces, but for much of the time that data can safely be paged out to disk and not used. When I come and use the machine, I'd like to have a large amount of RAM, but when I'm not using it, I don't want to pay for it.
- clone1018 14y agoYou can dynamically resize your servers via DigitalOcean's API.
- tedunangst 14y agoWhat happens when they sell your ram to another customer, and then you decide you want it back?
- epaulson 14y agoIt's just capacity planning - they can migrate me around as needed, though obviously they'd like to minimize the number of times that happens. Maybe there are periods where I spin up but don't get the full memory - that's OK, I'm only paying for what I use. We have all of this virtualization technology but I still have to make hard decisions about size ahead of time. There are lots of providers that will let me burst CPU, I'd like to burst RAM. For people building small apps that get occasional usage, having more flexibility on memory would be a huge boon.
- crynix 14y agoI know IntoVPS lets you burst RAM. I believe the cheapest plan can burst to 1GB.