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Anyone know how much disk space and ram a standard ubuntu install on mongo needs? trying to map out my VPS needs ...

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    There is no definite answer for this. I can run MongoDB just fine on a 256MB Cloud Server. Then again, it isn't really being stressed. MongoDB also added auto-sharding in 1.6. – Rob Olmos Sep 04 '10 at 20:55
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    Thanks Rob -- that was actually what i wanted to know. Could a small dev slice support mongo + webserver ...etc – stickhandle Sep 07 '10 at 15:18

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There are no minimum requirements as such, but I wouldn't recomend running Mongo on the same box as your webserver.

MongoDB automatically uses all free memory on the machine as its cache
(http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/fundamentals/#does-mongodb-require-a-lot-of-ram)

This, along with the reasons mentioned in this answer (albeit for RDBMS) makes running mongodb on a separate box (even a small one) a much better idea.

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