Darren Cook wrote: > 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.
You can get much lower (less than half) with spot pricing. > 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. Get a dedicated server from a hoster. 50 Euro/month should get you a 4x2.6Ghz i7, for example with hetzner.de. Leaseweb has octas starting from 140 Euro/month. -- GCP _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
