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The ground is the limit, I don't think 4GB SSD for KVM is crazy
Saw some ~256MB in the wild.
~256 Storage for VPS ? Where ?
5GB NVMe disk on our 256MB plan
4GB is plenty. 2GB is largely sufficient (Lowendspirit VPS are in that range - OpenVZ but that doesn't make a lot of difference concerning disk usage). 256MB is a bit of a challenge for most distros but then i run Devuan Jessie on a 256MB CF card (around 180MB used). Could probably get down to 128MB (quite a bit of hacking involved) but that's pushing it.
But I see this Chinese plan only 4GB.
I know where there is a 1GB HDD OpenVZ, but they also need to provide some other services(lighttpd etc.), and....that storage is too small ?
You're certainly right that that would be considered a small KVM plan by current standards.
But, as others have said, it would work for a small installation of Debian or Devuan (not to mention of OpenBSD or NetBSD).
Given you can more or less painlessly trim down your OS to 180mb or even less (if you know what you are doing) 800mb for a couple services seems quite doable. Besides as @angstrom mentioned you could just use an OS with a small disk footprint to begin with.
640 kB ought to be enough for anybody
Gullo gave me 3GB total. 3GB also took up OS space, so I got like 1.5 GB to work with.
You MS-DOS old timer.
What you're probably missing is that plenty of people rent VPSes for use as VPNs. For VPNs, you need very little memory and very little disk. You really don't need anything more than a bare minimal OS install.
The lowest amount of RAM I ever assigned to KVM was 64MB to test some old OSes.
OP asked about Hard Drive
For many use cases 1GB to 1.5GB disk space is plenty enough. Using lots of widespread junk like LAMP though 5+ GB will be desirable.
Here's the smallest that I've seen:
https://clients.inceptionhosting.com/cart.php?gid=19
Although it's currently out of stock, their smallest MiniKVM has 128 MB RAM and 3 GB SSD. (Yes, it's NAT, but it's nevertheless a KVM.)
When I first came across LEB, 64-128Mb was the norm and anywhere between 1-2Gb was the HDD space, admittedly they were normally OVZ rather than KVM thou...
I have one from Hiformance that is 3 GB.
My lowest is from Sentris: 128mb RAM with 3000mb HDD, and it's running my most important application: idle.
3GB with KVM.
That's winner.
https://clients.gestiondbi.com/index.php?/cart/lowendspirit-nat-vps/LES-NAT-MTL64 - 3.50$ CAD p/ year -> 1GB Storage
Nevermind, thats OpenVZ
1GB Storage with OpenVZ is very common.
http://lowendstock.com/