[Ilugc] Suggestion for Dedicated Server for a Social networking website
- From: suraj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suraj Kumar)
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:13:42 +0530
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved at gmail.com> wrote:
Be careful before going with EC2 micro instance. It's not meant to use
with sustained processing. It's not a good idea to run website on it.
It's rather meant for running applications that need processing power
in bursts. Micro instance is not allocated dedicated processing, it
only gets whatever extra is available. So you get spikes in processing
only when available, read
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts_micro_instances.html#available-cpu-resources-during-spikes
yes, technically, micro instances are less reliable than others - but I'd
say use it as a blessing in disguise to build an application that is
independent of the underlying infrastructure. So we might as well learn to
dance on a shaky floor so that we can dance really well on firmer grounds.
;)
Another step in the same direction: Use Spot instances (which are even less
reliable) where you can get a machine for as less as Rs.0.25 per hour. But
the key is in building stateless systems.
Cheers,
-Suraj
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