On Saturday 21 February 2009 05:04:54 pm Jonathan Rockway wrote: > * On Sat, Feb 21 2009, Octavian Râşniţă wrote: > > Hello, > > > > It is very clear that a Catalyst app can't run on a shared host, but > > it requires either a dedicated server or a VPS. > > I am searching for web space providers that offer VPS and I've seen > > that they use to set their tariff plans mainly on the guaranteed > > memory, but I don't know which would be the necessary memory for a VPS > > that runs an OS like Fedora or CentOS, Apache, Perl and Catalyst. > > > > Could be 256 MB of memory enough? Or 512? Or I would need 1 GB or more > > if I would like to run a Catalyst app? > > We run lots of Catalyst apps on the smallest Linode. I think they give > us something like 340M of RAM. This is enough. > > I use a 512M Slicehost for jrock.us, which runs my mail server and a few > Catalyst applications. > > Anyway, nearly every VPS provider I know of lets you add more memory > easily. Buy the small one, and if you need more memory, upgrade. > Seconded. I run prod stuff for $WORK on Xen VMs with 512MB of RAM. Light-duty stuff should work well enough on 256MB and Linode's 360 deal is just about ideal. And any _good_ provider should let you instantly add more RAM with nothing more than a reboot, and prorate the bill appropriately, so growing shouldn't be a huge source of concern.
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