Every indie hacker running on a $5 VPS has asked this question. The answer depends entirely on what...
Every indie hacker running on a $5 VPS has asked this question. The answer depends entirely on what kind of apps you're running — and most guides skip the actual math.
Here's the breakdown I wish I had when I started.
Your real available RAM is not 1GB
The OS and PM2 daemon eat RAM before your app runs a single line of code:
Component
Why PM2 over Docker for most services Running 13 production services on a single VPS. Here...
CLUSTERING You created your node application, it's ready, you have chosen an 8 vCPU...
A few years ago, whenever I started a new project, I thought: "This project needs its own...
I remember the day I got my first $200 bill from a PaaS provider (Platform as a Service). I only...
I used to deploy Node.js apps on EC2 and manage servers like it was my second job. Port configs. PM2...
Your RAG demo works on localhost. Under real load—socket exhaustion, 429s, and pool timeouts kill it. A frontend dev's…
