Hey, I've been running my own home server for a while -- centralized backups, IRC, fileserver, svn (now git) repo's, etc. It was all fun and games until I got married.
Now I'd like to consolidate my five home computers into one laptop and possibly an Amazon EC2 instance or two. Have any of you used EC2 for revision control or S3 for backups, and if so, what's your experience been? I know RMS isn't into it (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman). I could use shared hosting for some of this, but I'm tired of rolling my own binaries and then figuring out broken dependencies when the host does an upgrade. I checked out the cost of running an EC2 instance 24/7 and it appears to be less than ideal. But am I right in thinking with a couple of scripts I could launch and shutdown the instance whenever I needed it? Andrew _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
