Small website on Amazon EC2 Linux: a single large instance or more small instances in load balancing?

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Posted by Enrico Detoma on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Enrico Detoma
Published on 2012-06-28T08:56:56Z Indexed on 2012/06/28 9:17 UTC
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I need to run a small website with a JSON webservice on Amazon EC2 Linux. The largest number of requests come from the JSON webservice, which provides some load in terms of MySQL queries.

I'm trying to decide between two choices:

  • A single large instance (Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit) with full LAMP stack

or

  • One or two small instances (Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit) with Apache/PHP only
  • One small instance dedicated to MySQL (or RDS)

Which setup would you consider to be more performant?

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