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pjc50 on Feb 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?

Yup. I think HN skews surprisingly middle-aged now, and therefore many of us remember that era. You can do a lot on a tiny server if you're efficient.

megous on Feb 6, 2023 [–]

For a few years I did run my mail/web/... servers on a light virtualization host that billed by actual memory, disk and CPU use by minute. It's amazing what optimizations one finds to lower the resource consumption when it has direct effect on the price. At times I was running for $0.5/month :D

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