High-memory VPS for AI agents: when your fleet actually needs the RAM
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The mistake I see most often with agent hosting is sizing for the wrong thing. Someone runs one agent, it uses 400 MB, and they conclude agents are cheap to host. Then they scale to a real crew and the box starts swapping at 3 a.m. One agent is cheap. That's not the interesting case. Where the memory actually goes An agent that only fires off API calls to a model is light — it's mostly waiting on the network. You could run a dozen of those on a small plan and never notice. The RAM disappears…
1Key Takeaways
- The mistake I see most often with agent hosting is sizing for the wrong thing.
- Someone runs one agent, it uses 400 MB, and they conclude agents are cheap to host.
- Then they scale to a real crew and the box starts swapping at 3 a.m.
- Where the memory actually goes An agent that only fires off API calls to a model is light — it's mostly waiting on the network.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that the mistake I see most often with agent hosting is sizing for the wrong thing.
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