By clemorphy
Hi! CentOS 7 being only available in the x64 flavour, and x64 applications being known to use more RAM than x32 ones, is it safe to install it on a 512Mb droplet ? Or should I stick with CentOS 6.5 x32 ? Will the droplet limits be reached more quickly with the CentOS 7 x64 version ?
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This question was answered by @hunky:
I would vote for CentOS 6.6… Mind you 6.5 is been updated to 6.6…
I am not expert but they say x64 is only beneficial when you have at-least more than 2GB of RAM…
So better to stick with CentOS 6.6 x32…
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