On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:19:27AM -0700, Andrew Brookins wrote: > 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
S3 is fantastic for backups and its what I use for all my stuff. I am currently using the python s3tools http://s3tools.org/s3cmd for managing this, but I hope to finish out my bacula setup soon enough. As far as EC2 is concerned, it gets really expensive. You might want to look into corenetworks.net. Thats who I use for my hosting. -- --Dan _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
