After spending several days researching, I have placed a website on a c1.medium instance, Amazon Linux, and the MySQL database on a db.m1.medium instance. The RDS is running MySQL version 5.6.13. I have allocated 100 GB for the DB instance and have set the provided IOPS at 1,000. The website is photo based, permits user uploads and at peak hours has 400+ visitors. After spending several days researching, I have