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0 pointsjedberg8y ago0 comments

> we had a policy of telling customers to never run a production site on a t1.micro

It's perfectly safe to run a production site on a t1.micro, as long as you follow good principles regarding monitoring and autoscaling.

You'd be a fool to run a production website on any instance type without those failsafes, but with them in place, a t1/t2.micro is no worse than any other. And in fact, since they boot so quickly, they are really nice with auto-scaling.

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sudosteph8y ago

I should clarify, "single t1.micro". Some customers just really refused to do any autoscaling config at all, so best we could do is show them how to backup and restore. But it's true that t1s really were very inconsistent in performance compared to the other families. T2s may be better, but I don't have insight on that.

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