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To what use would you put a machine of such specifications ? (media.piefed.ca)
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[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, aren't you that c10y person?

Anyway, I won't argue it could be used as a server, but 2 Gigs of Ram and a 2011 CPU paired with a TerraScale IGP is probably worse than almost any VPS. I pay 4.50€ for 4vCPUs and 8 GB of Ram, and that's pretty much the cheapest/smallest option my provider has.

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah lol.

Nah there are loads of smaller instances. Pretty much any nano or micro or small AWS instance, for example: t3a.small 2vcpus 2 GiB 9.05/month

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nice, cool project.

Ah, right. Never really got using AWS for small/private stuff. If you're in the ecosystem, that's one thing, and sure, they have global coverage that's hard to beat, but if you just need something for a small deployment, they're so expensive.