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For example, on the lowest level plan you get 512mb, is the actual RAM 256mb with a 256mb burst?
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@sb73542 you can set up swap on your droplet: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-12-04
Swapping on SSD will still be terrible, just not as bad as on spinning disks. RAM access latency is measured in single digit nanoseconds, SSD access latency is 50-100 microseconds, HD access latency is 11-20 milliseconds. So, SSDs are 200x quicker to respond than harddrives, but still about 10,000 times slower than RAM.
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