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Originally Posted by Infin1ty You know literally nothing about what you're even saying. SAMP barely even uses much ram. I'd say allocate 512MB towards SAMP and maybe another gig and a half towards a MariaDB database (and apache/nginx if you decide to install phpMyAdmin). SAMP cannot utilize more than a single core however as you said 2 or more would actually work alright. You could even do with one core because SAMP wouldn't utilize the whole entire core unless you were gonna have a full-to-the-brim server. When it comes to a small VPS, whether its a SSD or a HDD should not matter unless you're handling a lot of read/write operations. If you're using a MariaDB database you shouldn't even need these read/write operations anyways. Obviously a SSD is much prefered due to just making everything snappier in general. Bandwidth just determines how much traffic your server can handle, how much data can be sent/received. Most proper hosts offer unlimited bandwidth, however if you're going with something dogshit then be wary of your limitations. Note: You can substitute MySQL for MariaDB. MariaDB is a open-source fork of MySQL, by the original author of MySQL, who sold it to Oracle.

You are attacking me and yet you didn't add something useful. I will firstly correct you that, you can never have unlimited bandwidth but rather unmetered. Where's the difference?

Your provider doesn't measure your bandwidth and doesn't set a maximum capacity or anything, but you still pay for the bandwidth already. When you get a 100 slots SA-MP server for a month, you pay for the bandwidth needed for having the server up and running for a month having a constant playerbase of 100 players all the day. If you get less players, you pay for more bandwidth than what you actually need. For example, you pay for 100 slots, which needs 1.2TB of bandwidth a month, and you get just 50, you used half the bandwidth.

As for the recommended RAM, are you going to start the server with grand larceny? As hard as you optimize your script, you will still need more RAM. There are plugins like ColAndreas (takes 400MB RAM alone), MySQL (doesn't really take that much unless you have a big playerbase), and FCNPC or any NPC plugin that can even take 1 GB of RAM. That's why I recommended 4 GB RAM for a big server and if you plan to make a test server.

I recommended 2 or more CPU cores for if you run other applications than a SA-MP server, whatever you use, you will need more than one core to ensure that any other applications will not affect the SA-MP server.

You mentioned that SSD is 'much preferred'. I also recommended a SSD VPS, so you changed nothing here.