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When we are already at the point of giving advice: use postgres instead of MySQL.

Anyway the article is actually not very good. If you are able to put your data in a managed db with backups and stuff, this is mostly better anyway than playing around with some local data but plenty of people don't have access to a managed db service.

And no 16gb is nothing. Go get more ram for 50 bucks and forget about it.