[ceejayoz]

> The web server is running on an EC2 t1.micro instance.

Why do people do this?! t1.micros run beautifully at load for 30 seconds then essentially stop entirely for a while... not to mention having much slower internet than even a m1.small.

[stock_toaster]

  > Why do people do this?

My guess is: so they can utilize the free tier for a year. After that, I agree it makes almost no sense.

[ceejayoz]

Oh, I'm happy to use it for side projects getting a few dozen hits a day. I'm continually baffled by folks running performance benchmarks against them, though.

[vacri]

.micro throttling is simply domain knowledge that not everyone has.

[pkandathil]

After the testing, you will see that we upgraded to a c1.medium instance.

[ceejayoz]

OK, but initially trying to benchmark on a t1.micro indicates a lack of experience with EC2 that colors any other benchmarking you might be doing.

Add in others' comments about this basically compromising security for speed and this is a bit of an irresponsible article.