Adding to all the helpful replies form others on this, I'll add that just last night at the Atlanta CFUG we had a really well-informed speaker, a long-time CFer who has done a lot of work with redeployment of CF and Railo servers to Amazon's cloud offering. I'm hoping to have him present his talk on the Online CFMeetup sometime soon. It was really well-received.
In the meantime, Steve, his name is Jeremy Bruck, and he does consulting to help people move to the cloud. I'm sure he'd welcome you reaching out to see how he can help (i...@growstrategy.com). /charlie > -----Original Message----- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Steve Onnis > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 9:10 PM > To: cfaussie > Subject: [cfaussie] Amazon EC2 hosting services viability > > I have been looking at the EC2 services and trying to work out if it > is cost effective or not and so far it is coming way short. > > 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. I have a rack with 7 servers and a few VMs running other > services, so based on those numbers, to move my whole network into > the cloud it will cost me over $6,000.00 to move my network into the > cloud. > > So i guess the question is, where do the savings come from? Just from > bandwith? I appreciate there is the whole on demand elastic side of > it but from a cost-benefit perspective, is it really worth it? > > Has anyone done the move and actually found cost benefits? > > > Steve > > -- > 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. -- 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.
