VPS Memory Requirements

 

Our VPS system booted with SSHD, crontab and syslog daemon takes only: 5MB total RAM!

 

 

 

 

Minimum memory required to start & use service on VPS

 

Service	RAM usage
System	5MB RAM
Apache Web Server	10MB RAM
MySQL Server	27MB RAM
Mail Server	10MB RAM (smtp, pop3 & imap)
Tomcat 4	190MB RAM
Tomcat 5	173MB RAM
Tomcat 6	175MB RAM
JBoss 4.2.2	271MB RAM
Apache Geronimo	271MB RAM
GlassFish v3	525MB RAM
MySQL server	27MB RAM
Ensim Control Panel	512MB RAM
Cpanel Control Panel	512MB RAM
Webmin Control Panel	5MB RAM

 

Example:

 

Lets say, You have selected our "Starter Java VPS" plan with 384MB RAM.

You want to run: Tomcat 5, Apache Web Server & MySQL database

 

Calculation: 5MB(system) + 173MB(Tomcat5) + 10MB(Apache) + 27MB(MYSQL) = 215MB RAM

Free RAM left: 169MB RAM

 

The Free RAM is memory that will be available to your applications to work.