Shrinking NixOS Ram footprint and resource requirements to the bare minimum lowendspirit.com

A TierHive NixOS VPS guide reports cutting idle RAM use from 288MB to about 96MB and enabling a full rebuild in 512MB, down from a stock requirement of 896MB. The author achieved this by disabling unused kernel features and services, trimming modules and tuning memory management, and provides the configuration; release upgrades may still need more RAM or a second attempt.