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It's got 512M RAM, half a TB of transfer, and 10G storage

It's fast enough for just about any basic website – and definitely a good place to start to see if you need to improve the specs later

Give it 1-2G of swap, and you're off to the races

create swap with fallocate:

fallocate -l 2G /swapfile && chmod 0600 /swapfile && mkswap /swapfile && swapon /swapfile 

then add the following to your /etc/fstab:

/swapfile swap swap default 0 0