Alex, is there any way you could do a demonstration about Amazon EC2/S3 some day?
(Sorry to thread-jack, but I find Amazon's hosting really interesting and I'd love to see someone really lay it all out and show how it would work, from A-Z.) Chris On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) <shadowhun...@gmail.com > wrote: > BTW I'm a paying user of AWS as well, and the largest bill I've had is > about 15 dollars for data transfer, the S3 and EC2 products have > usually been < $5.00/month. It's pretty cheap, and, like I said, I > liked the product even before I started to work here. :) > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:47, Alex Smith (K4RNT) > <shadowhun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Amazon has the Elastic Block Store product, as well as the famous > > Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). > > > > http://aws.amazon.com/ > > > > This site can answer all your questions. > > > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:36, Andrew Farnsworth <farn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Very tempting on both cloud fronts, especially the free one. I am > >> investigating what additional storage costs are as I have quite a bit of > >> data (~0.5 TB) on my server that I would have to move so paying for the > >> storage as well as the data move, unless they don't count the initial > load > >> in your network usage. I doubt the free hosting will allow me to stay > free > >> but pay for extra storage... we will see. > >> > >> Andy > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) > >> <shadowhun...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> I work for Amazon and you can get up on their free tier for a year. > >>> > >>> http://aws.amazon.com/free/ > >>> > >>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:08, Steven S. Critchfield < > cri...@basesys.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > A thought on the alternative options. Again a question of what you > want > >>> > to do > >>> > with it. > >>> > > >>> > If you look at rackspace and pricing of a cloud computer, They have > it > >>> > down to > >>> > $11 a month for the compute time and then add on your bandwidth. > >>> > > >>> > I priced it out for 512meg ram, 20gb drive, and 5gb each way and it > >>> > specs for > >>> > $23.20 a month. > >>> > > >>> > At $23.20 a month, you can be below the cost of housing your own > server > >>> > for about > >>> > 2 years if the server costs $500. If you can live with half the > memory > >>> > and drive, > >>> > you can extend that savings out to almost 4 years. > >>> > > >>> > Just something to think about. > >>> > -- > >>> > Steven Critchfield cri...@basesys.com > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>> > Groups "NLUG" group. > >>> > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >>> > For more options, visit this group at > >>> > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech > >>> censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, > >>> chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron > >>> Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is > >>> trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron > >>> Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" > >>> - Alex Smith (K4RNT) > >>> - Falls Church, Virginia USA > >>> > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >>> "NLUG" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "NLUG" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech > > censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, > > chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron > > Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is > > trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron > > Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" > > - Alex Smith (K4RNT) > > - Falls Church, Virginia USA > > > > > > -- > " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech > censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, > chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron > Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is > trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron > Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" > - Alex Smith (K4RNT) > - Falls Church, Virginia USA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
