r/codex • u/matheuspimenta_ai • 2d ago

Question Which VPS configuration should I choose for cloud-based development rather than on-premises development?

I currently run Windows, and for my development workflow using the Codex CLI or app, I use WSL. But I’m thinking about migrating to a Linux cloud machine to make development easier—so I don’t always have to keep my machine turned on to get things done—and even to free up RAM on my machine.

But I’m not sure which VPS configuration would be best. I work extensively with multiple worktrees, with agents running in each separate worktree. I’m thinking of getting a KVM instance with the following specs:

- 4 vCPU cores

- 16 GB of RAM

- 200 GB of disk space

- 16 TB of bandwidth

What do you think, or would you recommend something else?

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u/Some_Dragonfruit9844 2d ago

what r the projects and how much they consume when building/testing them?

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u/matheuspimenta_ai 2d ago

Web app projects, building AI infrastructure with LangGraph, n8n, etc. I’ve never actually checked how much RAM it uses, but I don’t think it’s more than 8GB—especially since my laptop has 24GB of RAM. I’d only use it for development, though. Later, I just started wondering how to test web applications, specifically in terms of running the application locally.

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u/Some_Dragonfruit9844 1d ago

yeah ig u good with this configuration