What's better for deploying a website + DB on EC2: 2 small VM or a large one?
- by devguy
I'm planning the deployment of a mid-sized website with a SQL Server Standard DB.
I've chosen Amazon EC2 to deploy it. I now have to choose between these 2 options:
1) get 2 small instances (1 core each, 1.7 GB of ram each): one for the IIS front-end, one for running the DB. Note: these "small instances" can only run the 32-bit version of Win2008…