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So? If it's cheaper and gets the job done who cares?

I mean if you run serious stuff on a non-ECC CPU from 2015, you'll probably have a bad time.

They're great for hobbyists but people on here keep bringing them up as the flagbearer of euro hosting

I have several production services running right now on AWS t2 instances, which were released in 2016. For a service that isn't performance-critical, it's perfectly fine (and a significant cost savings) to run on decade-old hardware.

ECC vs non-ECC is also pretty irrelevant on a box with < 64GB of memory

A t2 instance is virtualized, AWS keeps its servers for 5 years (see their 10k https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/0001... ), so your t2 does get moved around regularly to newer servers.

And no, ECC is relevant with less than 64 gigs of ram, there's a reason it's been a standard on servers since the 90s

serious stuff like what? majority of people don't work on scale you probably are thinking about.

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