> From: Nick Webb [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 11:25 AM > > > The problem with elastic load balancer is that they cost just as much as a > new machine. So you might as well forget the ELB and just spin up a new > machine with another EIP. > > Really? Why? It does cost something like $7/mo + $0.01/GB for > traffic, but that's hardly the cost of another instance. Even micro > instances (which are mostly useless other than testing) cost $16+/mo. > Small instances cost $55+/mo, $7 is a lot lower than that. > > What am I missing?
I suppose it all depends. I am using a bunch of free instances, so those bring down the average cost of instances. The small instances are $0.08/hr, and the load balancer is $0.02/hr. I don't know if the load balancer can take an arbitrary number of external IP's, or if it can NAT the inbound traffic to arbitrary ports... Because internally, each machine can only have a single IP too, so the NAT would be necessary... I guess I'll have to look at it again. Thanks for challenging my dismissal on this. I know I looked at it a year ago or so. It deserves revisit. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
