Micro instances are good for certain things, but I wouldn't want to use one for general purposes. I'm not a guru with server performance, but the micro instanc

Micro instances are good for certain things, but I wouldn't want to use one for general purposes. I'm not a guru with server performance, but the micro instances seemed very poor. In my case, compiling from source seemed to always take way longer on an Amazon micro instance compared to a VPS with pretty much any other provider.