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xenilk
Apr 17, 2004

ERRYDAY I BE SPLIT-TONING! Honestly, its the only skill I got other than shooting the back of women and calling it "Editorial".
Yay! Perfect thread for this small question I'm having!

I'm running 5 rails apps that realistically don't get much traffic but need to be online and fast at all time. Right now I'm running the rails app / db through DigitalOcean 5$ to 10$ instances and have no plan to move to EC2 since it doesn't yet make sense for me.

BUT I'm debating moving all my postgres databases to a t2.micro RDS instance because it's fully managed AND properly backed up and the data is the core of my apps.

So my question, or questions, are:

- Is running a micro instance sounds like a viable option for a set of 5 sites that get probably <10,000 views daily total and probably less than a gb of database storage.
- I noticed that the network is marked as "LOW" for t2.micro instances, does that mean that it will be slow as hell?
- For EC2, instances have CPU Credits for bursts, is it the same for RDS? Does it mean my instance can go down for any reason? That would blow.

Thanks!

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