{"id":162,"date":"2024-10-04T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanobserver.net\/?p=162"},"modified":"2024-10-04T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:50:11","slug":"upgraded-from-t2-micro-to-t2-small-lets-see-if-this-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/upgraded-from-t2-micro-to-t2-small-lets-see-if-this-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgraded from t2.micro to t2.small &#8211; Let&#8217;s see if this works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, I&#8217;m trying to make this system as cheap as possible. However, I was running a t2.micro instance and while that&#8217;s cheap, the system only comes with 1 GB of RAM. The MySQL database would often crash and this website was unavailable. I would have to restart services (or the entire EC2 instance) to get it back up.<\/p>\n<p>Since this makes the website unusable it&#8217;s not enough for me to keep. So while it&#8217;s &#8220;cheap&#8221;, it&#8217;s ineffective. I&#8217;ve upgraded to a t2.small config which has double the RAM. Granted, 2 GB is pretty tiny so we&#8217;ll see if this works.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-163\" src=\"http:\/\/japanobserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bold-strategy-Cotton.jpg\" alt=\"Bold strategy Cotton meme\" width=\"666\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, I&#8217;m trying to make this system as cheap as possible. However, I was running a t2.micro instance and while that&#8217;s cheap, the system only comes with 1 GB of RAM. The MySQL database would often crash and this website was unavailable. I would have to restart services (or the entire EC2 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/upgraded-from-t2-micro-to-t2-small-lets-see-if-this-works\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Upgraded from t2.micro to t2.small &#8211; Let&#8217;s see if this works&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}