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That VM is hardly "single purpose".

There's logrotate and other cleanup tasks, monitoring, dns, a firewall, and many more stuff running on that server. No matter how much you offload to the host (or forego), there's always a kernel and supporting deamons running alongside or under your app.




I said "technically yes" :)




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