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You can save back your 5$/month by increasing your machine’s swap space. I did the same when more memory was only required for compiling.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-...

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Does anyone know how accurate their warning about swap space on an SSD is? I know SSDs have limited reads and writes and swapping to them obviously uses those limited reads/writes, but how much of a concern actually is it? Especially if you're only using swap during the compile/deploy step?

As soon as you hit some kind of limit it will abort the process and output the error. So you will be notified about it and it wont go unnoticed. And if you only use it during compile and deploy then you are at no risk :)

(ps: bad grammar, on mobile)

another option is to take advantage of Gitlab's shared CI runners for small side projects

I do use Gitlab CI/CD for most my projects! It's great. I still build on the droplet after it passes, though.

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