Hi guys 
I am very very sad, cause I am trying to make a Cauldron server, but even when I am using a 1 GB server, i can only have very few plugins and 3-4 small Mods running, so I was thinking Sponge might help a little bit, but I noticed Sponge is for hackers or super smart people, and I am none of both…
My server has 3 months left of life, so we tried to make it Plugin/Modded, but I think we will have to give it up.
Note: This is not a complain, I am just telling my story related to Sponge.
Sponge is still in development and currently there’s no download available. If you want to run a modded server you have to use Spout, Cauldron or Bukkit until Sponge is finally released.
Sorry that we can’t help you just yet 
You need at least 3 GB to get a decent (moded) server running. If sponge gets released I don’t see a way that would change.
1 GB of RAM isn’t going to go very far, even with a Bukkit or Spigot server. 1 GB is more suited for vanilla with a handful of players on at a time.
Well I am poor. Sorry
Should work with 1 GB
3-4, easy peasy, u can run more mods than that (I know from experience)
Well, each time I try to add more the server sends me the ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space’ error, but I used to have lot of mods in Forge server. We had like 46 running nice. Just that Cauldron do not resist more than 3-4 with the plugins.
Add these arguments to your startup script:
-XX:PermSize=64M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M
change accordingly.
Note: You don’t need to get carried away with the size on these. 128M should be plenty
I read about that before, but I don’t know where is that thing, I am using a Multicraft server. Also, I asked the hosting site workers about it and they told me to pay for ‘Plugin and Mod installation’ services (It costs 5 dollars a month) and I cant pay for that.
WTF. Who are you with?
Think you need to find a new hosting provider unfortunately…
They are the cheapest ever in life u.u I can’t pay anything else, it cost me 74 dollars for a whole year.
Well, you’d do that in the run command. But I assume you don’t have FTP acces / access to those things?
Nope I can only modify my server properties and modify it, but I don’t have access to internal server configurations.
That is pretty cheap but you usually get what you pay for. For $6 a month, they most likely have everything locked down. If they’re not going to help without charging you, then I guess you’ll have to live with what you got. Without increasing the PermGen allocation, you’ll continue to run into that error.
Then there isn’t really anything you can do
If you pay $10 a month or more, I’d recommend checking out digitalocean.com and setting up a VPS (Yes that is a promo link, but u can $10 for free from it) then putting something like MineOS on that server.(I’m free to help out with the setup(although there’s no need for help)
EDIT: I just got a like in 5 secs after I post, some of you don’t have a life, that’s really obvious now 
Unfortunately that’s poor peoples life… I think I will keep with Forge until final day, which is in 3 months. Thank you everyone for your replies and help.
Actually paying something like 6.17 $ a month.