We have some experience with this. Our ftp site, which accounts for 80% of our traffic, has been on a t1.micro instance, their smallest, for $.007 an hour. With the $54 reservation fee, it is about $115 a year ($266 for 3 years) plus $.12 per gigabyte for outgoing traffic. The cost of bandwidth is considerably lower than we can get with a local carrier, and this is the major factor driving us to the cloud. We also have a CTAN mirror site that we run for the benefit of TeX users, and it sends out about 2 terabytes a month, which dwarfs the cost of running the machine. (I'm not counting the CTAN traffic when I say our ftp traffic is 80% of the total).
Gradually we are moving our website, forums, and build machines (except for the Mac) to a virtual private cloud inside the Amazon cloud. In spite of the stories you read in the press about outages at Amazon, their uptime percentage has quite a few more 9's than what we have done on our own. We are using EC2, S3, Route 53(DNS server), and VPC services at AWS. --Barry On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Amazon AWS is introducing new reduced pricing. What's interesting is that it > is based, apparently, on their data center upgrade strategy! "Older" > instances have their prices reduced .. thus I guess its a way of managing the > replacement older hardware! > http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#reserved > > I recall in the past calculating their charges being over $60/mo. Now you > can reserve their entry level systems for $69/year! That's getting tempting, > even for just moving my blog there. >
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