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by darren0 4530 days ago
Not enabling swap is extremely common in the hosting business. Even in EC2, a lot of the AMIs have no swap. This is to prevent users from thrashing your server hard drives. It's often better to have the customer run out of memory and realize they have gotten too small of a server then for them to start thrashing your HD and then just think your hosting is slow.