Posted on Oct 1 ## How I Run a Full Content Pipeline on a $7 VPS With 2GB of RAM (And the 3am Crash That Taught Me Why) The cron job ran at 3am and the server went dark. I woke up to a dead SSH session, a swap file that had been chewed through, and a pipeline that had produced nothing. The task was simple on paper: generate a batch of images, vectorise them, package them, upload them. On my laptop it took a few minutes. On a 1 vCPU box with 2GB of RAM it killed the machine. I had written code that worked. I had not written code that fit. ## Why small servers die The mistake was concurrency. I…