Thanks, Adam. That looks like a +1 for AWS and I appreciate your comments about Amazon's support and documentation.
regards David On Monday, 21 August 2017 21:09:59 UTC+1, Adam Cox wrote: > > Hi David, I do all of my hosting on AWS because it is extremely flexible, > and the price is right. I don't have experience with Google Cloud Engine or > Azure... I would imagine that both of those services have everything you > need to get set up with Arches, but from Joel's comment it sounds like > Azure is more expensive than AWS. As for support, I have had a few issues > that were all quickly and easily resolved by opening support cases, and I > have also found their documentation to be very thorough. There is a > learning curve, but I highly recommend AWS. I don't know about GCE's "free > forever" tier, but AWS has its own "free tier" that includes the services > you would need for Arches, though it only lasts one year, just so you > know... > > If it's ever of interest to you, my company offers hosting for Arches v3 > or v4, either in production or just to help you out with development (set > up a quick instance and give you access to it, etc.). > > Hope that info is all helpful! > > Adam > > On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 10:28:50 AM UTC-4, David Osborne wrote: >> >> Does anyone using a cloud implementation of Arches have recommendations >> for choosing a provider? For our project, I'm considering Amazon AWS, >> Google's Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. This is a new installation, so >> there are no legacy systems to be considered. In the past, I've read about >> AWS but I don't yet know very much about Google's offering. At the >> university where I work, we're starting to deploy some new services in >> Azure, so I've had a little more exposure to that and it does seem to offer >> some useful services, with PostgreSQL as a supported database, for example. >> However, my work on Arches is not related to the university. >> >> How do the costs compare for the three providers? Similarly, how are they >> for support? I'll be grateful for any comments. >> >> Thanks >> David >> >> >> -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
