For what its worth, I posted the details of a month of running http://dltj.org/ out of an EC2 instance after I converted last year. The details are at:
http://dltj.org/article/aws-hosting-cost/ It is a WordPress site that gets about 20,000 page views a month. Peter On Feb 22, 2012, at 5:00 PM, David Uspal wrote: > Erik, > > We did a study a few months ago to evaluate the Amazon EC2 as an > alternative host to both physical and virtual server spaces managed in house. > Won't go into too much detail on it (unless people are interested), but our > benchmark tests showed the performance of the EC2 consistently beat the > performance of our in-house servers. > The only big issue we had was cost, where our estimation of the price of > running our servers off the EC2 would make actually doing so prohibitive. > There were also some confusing fees built in the payment model, the one off > the top of my head being "x cents per million I/O operations". As someone who > went with the EC2 and is running one currently, could you comment quick on > your monthly costs (though I understand though if you don't want to release > that information.) Thanks. > > > David K. Uspal > Technology Development Specialist > Falvey Memorial Library > Phone: 610-519-8954 > Email: david.us...@villanova.edu -- Peter Murray Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS peter.mur...@lyrasis.org +1 678-235-2955 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 800.999.8558 Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org LYRASIS: Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers.
