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I second your Joyent recommendation. An article of mine made it to the top of Hacker News' frontpage - said article is hosted on one of their SmartMachines w/only 256megs of RAM… running blogging software I had written myself. And it held up fine!

To fit within the confines of that amount of RAM, though, I've since switched to nginx… :)

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Yea. I have two SmartMachines through them. One of the now unavailable 512mb machines and a 1gig. I've been pretty happy with both of them. There are certainly ways they could improve but it's clear that Solaris Zones as a way to do virtualization isn't going to show the same level of performance degradation as a typical virtualization setup.

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