Is it possible to set vm memory size for less than 256 MB?

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I think we’ll end up doing smaller instances, but it won’t be quick. This is for two reasons:

  1. We deal with an awful lot of OOM related support issues. OOMs really make us look bad, they’re a nasty experience that’s hard to really handle well in a UX.
  2. Swap is not without cost. VMs that swap are exchanging RAM for iops. I would be very wary of advertising memory constrained VMs with swap.

We have some ideas, though, we can scale memory up and down dynamically. We’ve thought about billing based on actual RAM usage. It appeals to me, it would just be very complicated to explain. And if you’ve seen us on the internet, our pricing is already too complicated.

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