From a few KBs of RAM a decade ago, we are talking about 12GB RAM on a smartphone. But do we actually need that much RAM is the question? Most of our laptops are either 4 or 8GB RAM and work quite flawlessly. Eventually, it all depends on how the software is optimized to utilize the RAM efficiently. In this post, I’ll be talking about optimizing the performance of a 1 GB VPS server for running high traffic websites and apps.