multi-site deployment on a budget

[Vince Wadhwani]

Quick question for the list.. if I've got two similar apps both getting around the same amount of traffic, would it be better to separate them on two smaller slices or run them using vhosts on a larger slice?

i.e.:
app1 on a 256MB slice
app2 on a 256MB slice

- or -

app1 and app2 on a 512MB slice.

It'd be a phusion/apache stack either way. 

Thanks,
--Vince

[Aníbal Rojas]

One larger slice would be a better bet.

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[Alex Malinovich]

If you're on a budget, and if neither of the sites is likely to get a
huge number of visitors all of a sudden, you're definitely better off
with a single larger VPS than two smaller ones.