[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.