> With modern computers, where even the smallest instance currently available on AWS would have been a beefy system when this advice was first diffused into the

> With modern computers, where even the smallest instance currently available on AWS would have been a beefy system when this advice was first diffused into the community Cloud VM instances are for the most part very underpowered (and for the performance, overpriced). You'd have to go far back a lot of years to get to an era where a "beefy system" of the time was as weak as the smallest AWS instance (t2.nano?)