Amazon EC2 can be cost-effective for short bursts of computation, but for 24/7 it can be a bit expensive [1][2]. E.g. Hi-CPU medium (roughly 2x2.4Ghz xeon cores, 1.7GB memory, 32bit) is $0.17/hr, which is $122/month. The High-CPU extra large (Roughly 8x2.4Ghz xeon, 7GB, 64 bit) is $0.68/hr or $490-500/month.
I wondered if anyone had recommendations for rental servers paid for by the month with equivalent power but costing less. Note: I know there are lots of shared and VPS hosting choices out there, but they generally give no CPU share guarantees. Many also kill long-running programs, which is very annoying when running a data analysis script. So I'm hoping for personal recommendations from people actually doing data analysis, web mining, etc. Darren [1]: EC2 Instance types: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ [2]: EC2 Pricing: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ [3]: This drops to $320-330/month with a 1 year reserved instance (the $1820 up front payment, divided by 12, plus $175/month). Data transfer in/out would be another $25/month (based on 100GB in and out). -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
