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| author | Mark Longair <mhl@pobox.com> | 2013-12-05 09:50:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Longair <mhl@pobox.com> | 2013-12-05 09:52:08 +0000 |
| commit | d35b7fec9ad723496c95791ae314964f4d3360dd (patch) | |
| tree | d745c16c8b55abd9e805a313496f8997492d8cf0 | |
| parent | 72130f1c6c393ec94dad5bda9de72e85afa2918a (diff) | |
Update INSTALL.md to say that Alaveteli won't run in a EC2 Micro instance
The constrained memory on Micro instances has caused two separate
bug reports on alaveteli-dev, so update the documentation to
discourage people from trying that.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/INSTALL.md | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.md b/doc/INSTALL.md index f39789936..3decb53a3 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL.md +++ b/doc/INSTALL.md @@ -15,11 +15,10 @@ This creates an instance that runs in development mode, so we wouldn't recommend you use it for a production system without changing the configuration. -If you haven't used Amazon Web Services before, then you can get -a Micro instance which will be -[free for a year](http://aws.amazon.com/free/). You will find -that a micro instance isn't powerful enough for anything other -very basic testing of Alaveteli, however. +Unfortunately, Alaveteli will not run properly on a free Micro +instance due to the low amount of memory available on those +instances; you will need to use at least a Small instance, which +Amazon will charge for. The AMI can be found in the EU West (Ireland) region, with the ID ami-0f24c678 and name “Basic Alaveteli installation |