Hong Kong to Contabo Singapore is decent latency but the 128MB plan is not worth the transfer. I pay more for local VPS with 1GB and sleep better.
Running full LEMP stack on 128MB RAM, here's what broke
This.
Datenschutz note: Contabo's Singapore datacenter falls under different jurisdiction than EU. If you process EU citizen data, check your DPA. Not a dealbreaker but know where your bits sleep.
I am in Brazil so LGPD not GDPR but is good point for European members
I test backups by deleting things on purpose and I would never test on 128MB with a database. The OOM killer corrupts things in interesting ways.
SpeedElder here. Old sysadmin. In 2005 we ran MySQL on 256MB servers. But that was MyISAM, no InnoDB buffer pool, no PHP-FPM. Different world.
One small server, one quiet mind. My quiet mind runs OpenBSD httpd and static sites on 64MB. No PHP, no database, no problems.
Ghost on 128MB would also die. Node.js is not lightweight. Try Grav or Kirby if you want flat file.