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What sort of minimal images are low end providers using?
dr_durango
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I recently purchased a VPS from a lowendspirit provider, I was shocked to see that it only uses 16MB of RAM and has very few processes running. I also noticed a lot of seemingly default utilities were not installed on the server such as the "which" command. I chose to have Centos 7 installed. I've used the minimal image of Centos before, this seems even more minimal than that minimal ISO from the centos website. Does anyone know where I can find the installer for this very minimal Centos version?
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For the RAM part, the memory usage is pretty low because you don't the run the kernel, the host node does. For the images, most of the providers use the offical precreated templates
https://openvz.org/Download/template/precreated
Thank you! This is exactly what I'm looking for.