[Discuss] AWS Linux server scaling question

Drew Van Zandt drew.vanzandt at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 12:30:51 EDT 2013


Addendum: In the future, the setup is likely to also run a Symfony site.

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Drew Van Zandt
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com>wrote:

> Micro   (610.0MB RAM, 1 CPU): $0.020 per hour
> Small    (1.70GB RAM, 1 CPU): $0.060 per hour
> Medium (3.75GB RAM, 2 CPU): $0.120 per hour
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> A typical Apache process on this server is taking 7-8% memory, 4% CPU per
> top.  MySQL (untuned) is pegging the CPU and 10% memory.  Note that the
> Micro instance can actually use 2 CPUs for brief moments, but the Small
> gets more cycles steady-state on its single CPU.  In other words, Micro
> gets something like 0.75 CPU, but can use it as 2 CPUs 30% of the time and
> 0.07 CPUs the rest.  Small is 1 CPU 100% of the time.
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> Drew Van Zandt
> Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
> Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D.  Masquerade aVST
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> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
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>> On 03/21/2013 11:58 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
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>>> trying to figure out what our cheapest AWS setup to handle things for
>>> ~3500 users is.
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>> What do the different options cost per month?
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>> -kb
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