I get the monthly Amazon Web Services (AWS) newsletter and noticed the prices
have been decreasing over time. And they now have a free 1-year offer letting
you find out if its a good fit.
This led me to look for a book -- and sitepoint, a good tech publisher, had one:
http://www.amazon.com/Host-Your-Web-Site-Cloud/dp/0980576830/
And I found that they had recently migrated their entire IT department to AWS!
http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2010/11/11/sitepoint-migrates-to-amazon-ec2/
And remember Dropbox? Its entirely AWS.
Hmm.. maybe SFX might use AWS for projects that require web programming. Not
the website etc, but projects that need a hosting service. And it would be
free for the first year, apparently! Node.js runs on AWS: http://goo.gl/fDRr1
.. apparently an ubuntu based instance.
So a question: Are any of us using AWS? How's it working out? What's the
cheapest equivalent of a "shared hosting service"?
-- Owen
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