W2008 R2 on Virtual Server - is 1Gb RAM sufficient?

[Martin Harran]

I'm thinking of a Virtual Server for developing/hosting websites. The only
significant application on it will be SQL Server Express.

I see some very good offers around for entry level at 1Gb RAM; will W2008 R2
perform reasonably well with that amount of RAM or would I be wasting my
time?

[pete]

Post by Martin Harran
I'm thinking of a Virtual Server for developing/hosting websites. The
only significant application on it will be SQL Server Express.
I see some very good offers around for entry level at 1Gb RAM; will
W2008 R2 perform reasonably well with that amount of RAM or would I be
wasting my time?

SQL can be demanding of memory.
And *hosting* websites is a different situation to *developing* them.
The operating system itself will be OK (I run a W2k8r2 DC on 1 GB of RAM)
and built in infrastructure services like DNS, DHCP, and very simple file
shares for below 10 users can probably get away with it - particularly if
running on server core but I wouldn't go below 2GB for a box running any
other applications.
I have SharePoint Foundation 2010 running on a w2k8r2 box with 2GB and
that is slow enough to be noticeable at times.
In short - for what you said - 1GB is wasting time.