Server Hosting

[Kyoretsu]

Ram. This game gobbles it up. I want a server where it will most likely just be me and one other person working on one ship. These hosting sites have fancy hardware, but I need to know if that matters or if shear resources (amount of ram I am allowed access to) matters the most.

Realistically, how large of a ship can I build on 2 gigs of ram?

 

[jorgekorke]

If the only thing on the server will be you and your partner, the server with 2GB RAM will be fine. The only limiting factor will be your PC's hardware.

 

[Valck]

What jorgekorke says [nice avatar btw ; )]
In my experience processor cores matter more than memory.
I'm running the server portion of StarMade on an ageing Core2Duo laptop with 4 GiB of RAM, 2 of which are set aside for the server process.
For a small community of one to three concurrent players, it doesn't break a sweat except when generating planets, due to its limited CPU.