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Tangential but TierHive looks to be doing great work. You can get a VPS from them for about a couple of dollars a year.

It's not going to be powerful (128MB of RAM 1GB of storage) but if you run Alpine or NetBSD you can use it as a WireGuard peer, to host a small Website or to run some cron jobs.

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I'm running an [OpenStick](https://github.com/OpenStick/OpenStick) next to my Kubernetes cluster for fun and there's actually a lot of useful software that runs great with a limited amount of ram.

Some of my favourites are:

[Zeroclaw](https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw) - 3 MB RSS when idle!

[Beszel](https://github.com/henrygd/beszel) - 10 MB agent + 10 MB server

[Gatus](https://github.com/TwiN/gatus) - 10 MB

[Fusion RSS](https://github.com/0x2E/fusion) - 22 MB

[Adguard Home](https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/) - 40 MB

[Shiori](https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori) - 10 MB

You won't be able to run all of this on a 128 MB ram VPS but I bet you can run 1-2 services easily!

In college I had a laptop with eight megabytes of RAM. It ran Windows 3.11, including a full office suite (Ami Pro, Lotus 123, etc) and web browsers, USENET readers, mIRC, all in 8MB. It also ran an html server and ftp server as background processes. Today it couldn’t even run the RSS reader in that list.

Pointers were smaller back then.

Apps, too (as well as the specs they implemented).

Absolutely. There are many lightweight services that would fit. The rule of thumb is to look for something written in a native language that doesn't need to process a huge amount of data.

Wow these are great. Especially beszel

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