How many of you use SWAP on your VPS?
If you do, pls stop.

Zram swaps 😇

@Linux no, why?

@b3b3
It kills the disks

@Linux makes sense

@Linux What do you mean kills the disks? Like physically?

@Froot
Yes, physically

@Linux Ok. How is that relevant? It's a VPS not your personal computer, that's what you pay for

@Froot
It also slows down the disk for everyone else. And if you pay for IOPS - RIP wallet

@Linux True, if you pay for it then should be conscious about how you're spending you're money. And if I got a VPN I'd probably just get one with more RAM than use swap.

Tho still I think all hardware issues and issues between users are on the provider's shoulders. I mean, that's why you use a VPS instead of a physical instance, so you wouldn't have to deal with the underlying crap 😄

@Linux To be honest I'd go even a step further and use containers if possible to get even more stuff out of the way 😁

Don't even have the option to

@Froot yeah, lets just piss on the bus floor because we don't have to deal with the cleaning.

@Linux to bad I don't care about the other customers.... Maybe if the host was any good they'd use ssds and we wouldn't have to worry about that problem...

@azous No, no, it's not that. The bus is a community service. A VPS is a service whose one primary use is abstracting away the hardware layer.
So a better example would be to say "Let's all sit in the bus, who cares that doing that will wear out the seats"

@tankerkiller125
If you abuse the service, suspension awaits :)

@Froot
Yes, and SWAP is a knife against the seats

@Linux Heh. Ok. But seriously, is there any benefit to using swap as opposed to more RAM on a VPS? Is it cheaper? It's also slow as hell isn't it? Why do people even do this?

@Linux actually digital ocean kinda supports the whole swap thing. To the point that they have a tutorial on there site for it.