I'm looking into switching all of my servers to Linode. The thing is I have a couple of servers I like to have separated that only require 64 megs of ram. My question is... Is it possible to buy a Linode (say the 360 one) and split it into 5 72 meg instances or is Linode not currently set up for this?

Thanks in advance

It's not currently set up for this (nor will it be).

There are more resources involved than just RAM. A 360 split into 5 instances might only consume 360 megs of RAM, but it would consume 5 times as much CPU, and increase disk contention significantly.

~JW

This would make sense except in the instances in which you have a system that doesn't need all the RAM that is available to that instance, but that you would still like to keep separate from other instances... I guess Linode doesn't quite fit what I'm looking for.

Thanks for the quick answer.

You could potentially run Linux-VServer inside your Linode, it might not be quite what you're after - but it would allow you to split a single Linode into several virtual servers.