I use EC2 and S3 at my company. It is pretty much like you describe. The cheapest EC2 instance is $72/mo plus bandwidth usage.
S3 is great for cheap storage, as long as that's ALL you need - storage. If you need URL rewriting or any other interesting features, S3 is not is. For personal use, I have the cheapest Slicehost option for $20/mo and it works just fine. -wes On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Andrew Brookins <[email protected]>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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
