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		spitfire on June 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB VPS Yes you can. We used to run whole webservers on 486DX/2-66's with 8megs memory. Ran just fine. Kids these days.

retree on June 11, 2011 | [–]

Pfft - in my day we used to power our web servers using a potato: http://d116.com/spud/

spitfire on June 11, 2011 | | [–]

touché.

bcl on June 11, 2011 | [–]

Yep. Even got slashdotted once with a system that was a 100MHz and 16M RAM IIRC. The limiting factor was bandwidth, not CPU or RAM.

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