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How to survive with AWS EC2 T1.Micro instance

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With my t1.micro, i can host my personal redmine, git and blog. But i couldn’t do that with default settings.

I have used swap on file to it and here is how you can do it:

Copy & paste the code below:

sudo su -c '

dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile bs=4096 count=524288

chown root:root /var/swapfile
chmod 0600 /var/swapfile
mkswap /var/swapfile
swapon /var/swapfile
echo "/var/swapfile none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
'

To disable you can use:

sudo swapoff -v /var/swapfile
sudo rm /var/swapfile
sudo sed -i '/swapfile/d' /etc/fstab