[bpatrianakos]

I find it hard to believe they're hosting their app on a Micro EC2 instance. I mean, I do believe them but its very surprising. I've heard horror stories about simple blogs coming to a screeching halt when they get anything more than a few hundreds requests in a short time. Is it really possible to host an app like Countly on Amazon's free tier (EC2 specifically)?

[onur]

Well, since Countly Community Edition is open source we don't offer any SaaS from our server just yet. Countly Cloud will be the SaaS solution and I believe a micro instance won't do any good after the first week :) But a micro instance is powerful enough to host a website or a blog, even to open up your service for private beta.

[bpatrianakos]

I've been mulling over whether to take a dive into EC2 to launch a public beta actually so thanks for your comment. I've been trying to decide between EC2 or getting another 512 Linode to start. I think I will go for EC2 now mostly just to learn a few new skills and sharpen some old ones. Thanks.