What's 'burstable ram'?

[killaklown]

What is the difference between normal ram and the burstable ram?

 

[CrazyTech]

Normal RAM is what you can use all of the time; it's always yours and there's never a danger of it being employed by someone else. Burstable RAM, in turn, means that you can go up to that much usage, but it must only be for a short time. In other words, you can burst to that plateau of RAM, but cannot always remain at that level.

 

[moonlight77]

Normal RAM is what you can use all of the time; it's always yours and there's never a danger of it being employed by someone else. Burstable RAM, in turn, means that you can go up to that much usage, but it must only be for a short time. In other words, you can burst to that plateau of RAM, but cannot always remain at that level.

It means I can use burstable just from time to time cause it can lead to overloading of CPU. Am I right?

 

[CrazyTech]

That depends on how the host has it configured, but in most cases resources are probably going to be pretty tight on a VPS server when it's full. If you hit that burstable RAM all the time, at the very least you'll get into trouble with the host. I'm not sure about what safeguards there are, but I am sure something is in place to make sure nothing is fried in a VPS environment.

 

[Camron]

It means I can use burstable just from time to time cause it can lead to overloading of CPU. Am I right?

CrazyTech explained it the best. Yes, your not allowed to use burstable ram 24/7 (but that depends on your VPS host); the only reason burstable ram is there is to protect you from crashing your applications in case you get a spike in memory usage.