On a tangent, I've just set up a Debian 11 Linode LEMP server with 1GB
RAM and 10GB Disk.
It's not in the least troubled by the limited memory. Also there is no
swap in the default image - which seem sensible as it's on a SSD and
you don't want to be exercising a SSD with lots of swaps
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 482172 0 482172 0% /dev
tmpfs 100004 452 99552 1% /run
/dev/sda 25207476 2287196 21619456 10% /
tmpfs 500016 0 500016 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 100000 0 100000 0% /run/user/0