On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Steve Onnis <st...@cfcentral.com.au> wrote: > I am running windows servers and based on the calculator at > http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html is will cost between > $450 and $500 per month per instance to host, plus an extra $50ish for > data.
Could you provide a bit more detail on how you arrived at those numbers? I suspect you're assuming a much larger instance than you really need. The real key with EC2 is figuring out a minimal baseline to deal with your "quiet time" and then scaling up when you need it. The "cloud" isn't a great replacement for your data center unless your traffic is low by default - where you don't need your full data center - but has spikes which are as high or higher than your data center capability. Where I work, our traffic is seasonal: substantially higher in winter than summer. That means we could scale cloud hosting to our summer traffic and add capability in the winter. We could probably save a boatload of money. Also, if you're comparing managed services to cloud services, the cloud will look attractive - but if you're comparing bare bones VPS or dedicated servers that you fully manage yourself, the cloud will look expensive. Over the last four years, I've run production infrastructure in a combination of cloud, data center, and local servers. Every situation is different but you need to weigh up all the costs (and benefits). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
