On Dec 4, 2007 11:41 AM, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Schoonover wrote: > > http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/ > > > > Getting closer! Anyone on the list going to beta? > > I'm using EC2 and I saw the notice that the RHEL AMI was available but > I'm not going to be using it. I use CentOS unless I need RedHat's > technical support which is never. You have to pay a license fee for each > instance you want to fire up. A typical use for EC2 would be needing a > bunch of compute nodes on a very flexible basis. Doesn't make much sense > to me to pay license fees for that. Actually, it could make sense IF you > also paid the license fee on a per-hour basis. So take the normal cost > of an RHEL license, divided it up by the number of hours in a year, and > tack that onto Amazon's 10 cents per instance hour and then maybe I > could see using it if I needed RHEL. But my understanding is that you > pay the whole license fee up front when you fire up the AMI. > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list >
Thanks Tracy, I'm giving serious consideration to going EC2 instead of a traditional hosting company. What are your likes/dislikes about EC2? I'm already using S3, but only for offsite backups of home network data. -- Mark Schoonover, CMDBA http://marksitblog.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 619-368-0099 Give me ambiguity, or give me something else! --kelsey hudson -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
