On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Kyle Banerjee <baner...@uoregon.edu> wrote:
> Which takes me back to that scary opening question - how much memory is
>> enough? Here's the thing. We were running our trivial Fedora server a couple
>> of years ago on a micro EC2 instance--about 630MB. It wasn't running well,
>> but there wasn't much on the server and virtually no traffic, so no problem.
>> We're now integrating that with Drupal and wondering if using the next
>> larger size, with 1.7GB is going to work. From there we'd be paying four
>> times as much (for about four times as much RAM), which I'd like to avoid
>> unless that's what is realistic.
>>
>
> One thing you can do to save money is change your instance type on the fly
> if you find there are particular times when you require more horsepower. If
> you only need a large instance to perform certain operations but a small is
> adequate most of the time, there's no particular reason as to why you should
> always run as a large.
>
> Having said that, when you look at what is invested in creating a
> collection, the platform itself is really the smallest part of the total
> cost.
Well, you know that and I know that, but getting budgets approved each year
is still tough ;-).
Having said that, knowing that we can up the instance with relative
simplicity is one reason why I'd rather use a smaller instance now and see.
But I have no need to suffer and test the impossible just to prove that it's
impossible. And moving from the "small" EC2 instance to a "large" also means
moving from 32-bit to 64-bit, so our systems administrator has additional
work to do if/when that happens.
ari
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