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 archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
