By Zain Ul Abddin.
| Workload | Comfortable RAM |
|---|---|
| Static site / VPN / DNS | 512MB – 1GB |
| WordPress / small shop | 2GB (with caching) |
| WooCommerce / Laravel + MySQL | 4GB |
| Windows RDP (1 user) | 4GB (HS-2 and up) |
| Databases / Java apps | 8GB and up |
Check with free -h over a full week. If available memory stays near zero and swap is active, upgrade. If usage spikes only during backups or cron jobs, schedule around them instead of paying for idle RAM.
A laggy VPS is more often CPU- or disk-bound than RAM-starved. Check load average and disk wait before buying memory you will not use — see the tier table and match both.
