Ken Grunke wrote > I may be mistaken, but I have always been under the impression that > Amazon EC2 instances are virtual servers, basically no different from a > VPS which is commonly available and for a more reasonable long-term fee. > A VPS may be adequate for personal use and testing, but for business use > can be disappointing. Perhaps the Amazon instances are more reliable and > definitely more scaleable
I share your concerns and want to find out one way or the other. Kitely uses Amazon EC2, so there is hope. Ken Grunke wrote > My preference is > Ubuntu, but I've not noticed any price differences over other Linux > OS's. Here are some examples of costs by operating system: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11: $0.03 to $0.30/hr incl EC2 charges + other AWS usage fees Amazon Linux AMI (64-bit): $0.02 to $3.82/hr incl EC2 charges + other AWS usage fees Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Base: $0.02 to $0.285/hr incl EC2 charges + other AWS usage fees Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS: $0.00/hr for software + AWS usage fees It looks to me like Ubuntu costs less than the others, but maybe the page is just misleading? Ken Grunke wrote > One little "gotchya" for me was the server address - you can use > the public DNS address for your ini files (Regions.ini & applicable > config-include files) but are much better off using the Public IP number > if you want to avoid networking and region accessability headaches. Are you saying that we can't use the domain name when running OpenSim on Amazon EC2? If so, that's a huge gotcha for me. Thanks for your input! ----- Apollo Manga (Erik Gordon Bainbridge) Writer, instructor, former software engineer Northern California ErikBainbridge.com VirtualMarin.com hypergrid: marin.us.com:8002 -- View this message in context: http://opensim-users.2152040.n2.nabble.com/Amazon-EC2-hosting-for-OpenSim-tp7580697p7580708.html Sent from the opensim-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
