[racket] How much RAM does a Racket personal blog need?

On 09/11/13 04:52, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> Ben Duan wrote at 09/10/2013 10:33 PM:
>>
>> I'm buying a VPS to build my personal blog and learn Racket through
>> the process. But I don't know how much RAM do I need. Do you have any
>> suggestions? And any other suggestions on how to choose a VPS for Racket?
>>
>
> You can determine this empirically.
>
> Before you do, consider how you want to architect and deploy your app.
> Personally, I often like to start by making as much as possible static
> files that could be served by Apache or nginx (or a CDN), and then
> having deployed Racket run only for the parts that need to be dynamic
> (using my bare-bones "scgi" PLaneT package, or the Racket Web Server if
> I need continuations).  I also like to have Racket generate the static
> HTML files (using my "html-writing" and "html-template" PLaneT
> packages), as well as to prepare a staging directory to "rsync" to the
> server for deployment.
>
> Also, a big advantage of the cloud is that you can scale up easily.  For
> example, you could start with an Amazon EC2 free instance with Debian
> GNU/Linux, deploy your app to it, run JMeter against it with the peak
> load you want to support, and see whether you need a bigger instance. If
> you don't have anything non-stock on the instance other than what you
> "rsync" from a staging tree, upgrading instances is even easier.
>

Ben, if you are buying a KVM or Xen VM, use a guest OS with support for 
balloon RAM. With this you can increase the RAM without to stop the VM.