Hi, s3 is not used for block storage!! local ec2 instances storage or EBS drives are used.
I have instances running for 485 days. These are from the time we started using Amazon which was in beta. The fact that during the beta they some issued is not a big surprise. As to cost if you are using 4 servers it really does not matter. If you are you are using a 100 and there number can drop to 50 or go up depending on what you are doing the savings are significant. Being able to setup more servers to test a large new installation and then discard them paying only for actual usage gives you a lot of flexibility. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Ira Abramov <[email protected] > wrote: > Quoting Ghiora Drori, from the post of Wed, 04 Mar: > > Hi, > > Why would s3 bother you ? Its there it does not cost money if you do not > use > > it it cost fairly little when you do > > and it works ok. > > Well, I was told it's not accassible as a simple filesystem, which means > it won't work as shared storage for my current set of apps (various PHP > and other tools expecting to find plain files in the directories they > put them in... > > > The only thing you will need s3 for is to store images of systems you > want > > to launch, you could use public images > > but the cost of keeping private onse in s3 is negligible and this gives > much > > more flexiblity in creating custom servers. > > Well, the hosting guy has 5 very different servers hosted right now. a > winXP for Marcom, a couple of production Debian LAMPs, a test LAMP and a > spare > machine for sensitive sites. I think we are talking about too many > details to try and just dump them P2V on a cloud and hope for the > best... > > > You do have to learn how to handle it aka instances can die and then > > you loose their disk this has been rare lately, was more common a few > > month ago. The EBS drives however do not die with the machine so data > > are you trying to cheer me up? :) I have machines with 500-600 days of > uptime here, I don't need to move a bunch of Israeli sites to a far away > cloud that occasionally has a lightning storm as well. > > > You can put mysql, or any other software in images or load them when > > the instance is up. You can run RedHat, Gentoo, Ubuntu or even > > Windows... You can scale up and down the number of your servers and > > EBS disks as needed. > > If your servers were built for clustering in the first place, maybe. > This is not a case of "Drag'n'drop", as you can understand :) > > > Make an account and play with it!! A small machine/instance (32 bits) > > is 10 cents an hour. If you cannot afford that you are not really > > commercial :) A few minor calculations should give you the correct > > cost numbers. > > 10 cents an hour are $2.4 a day or about $75 a month. this is more or > less what the guy is paying in Israel now, and he gets less latency (all > Hebrew sites and wanted only by Israelis), more disk space, etc. > > I guess the only real plus of histing the apps there is the Fun in the > SAN. > > > As sysadmin using it in a real web company it is very good, has a > > learning curve like everything else. > > yeah, only he's expecting definite answers from me, and Now I have to > talk him into doing a pilot because I don't have all the correct > answers. But that's the way the Internet works, right? :-) > > Cheers, > Ira. > > -- > Santa's little helper > Ira Abramov > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Constant change is here to stay!
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