django application with t3.micro can handle a lot of traffics..
I made an ecommerce website using django and have run for 2years. At first time, I was quite afraid that t3.micro is not enough for my django backend server. However, these are what I experienced for 2years of running it..
specs are:
backend : t3.micro / django5.0 / python 12
db : t3.micro / RDS PostgresQL
cache : redis(elasticache)
- I got about 20k~40k visitors a month, t3.micro backend server can handle even without any of cpu or memory spikes.. most of the time, cpu usage stays at 3~5%.. 10~15% for peak time..
- sometimes I got 50~70 concurrent users and t3.micro can handle without scale out and my app does not show any performance drop..
- no async, I use only restframework and still it is quite fast enough. page load takes 1.5sec, most of request takes 30~50ms.