Great thread!
At WFU we used reserved AWS instances which lowered our overall costs
but committed us to the amazon platform for a year. We also wound up
grouping most of our services on a large server (~$87 per month after
reservation fee) so that we could take advantage of all of that
capacity.
On Feb 22, 2012, at 11:52 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:
EC2 works for a lot of models, but one that it does not work for is
small traffic apps that need to be available 24/7. If you have a small
instance (AWS term) running full time with a fixed IP, it costs about
$75 a month. If you turn it on for
I have a single co-located host and I get ping, power, pipe, and air
conditioned comfort for $75/month. I haven't seen nor touched my (Linux) server
in more than four or five years, and I might have restarted it four times.
--
Eric Lease Morgan
EC2 works for a lot of models, but one that it does not work for is
small traffic apps that need to be available 24/7. If you have a small
instance (AWS term) running full time with a fixed IP, it costs about
$75 a month. If you turn it on for 2 hours a day, it costs about
$15/month. A large
Library
Phone: 610-519-8954
Email: david.us...@villanova.edu
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For what its worth, I posted the details of a month of running http://dltj.org/
out of an EC2 instance after I converted last year. The details are at:
http://dltj.org/article/aws-hosting-cost/
It is a WordPress site that gets about 20,000 page views a month.
Peter
On Feb 22, 2012, at
Phone: 610-519-8954
Email: david.us...@villanova.edu
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Roy Tennant writes
I'd also be interested in getting some real world cost information. I
installed an app on EC2 that went mostly unused for a couple months but
meanwhile racked up over $300 in charges. Color me surprised.
I am not impressed by Amazon either. I have an instance given to
At Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:34:14 +0100,
Thomas Krichel wrote:
Roy Tennant writes
I'd also be interested in getting some real world cost information. I
installed an app on EC2 that went mostly unused for a couple months but
meanwhile racked up over $300 in charges. Color me surprised.
I
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd also be interested in getting some real world cost information. I
installed an app on EC2 that went mostly unused for a couple months but
meanwhile racked up over $300 in charges. Color me surprised.
EC2 can be a
Erik Hetzner writes
Another satisfied customer.
Actually I did not write that I was/am satisfied. ;-)
They once managed to disassemble my server and I lost all the data
on it. They were so embarrassed that they gave my sponsor the box
for free for a year. I was fine because I had a
: Re: [CODE4LIB] Any libraries have their sites hosted on Amazon
EC2?
Hi Nate
When I was at Wake Forest University we moved a large chunk of our web
services to Amazon and it worked out well. We chose Amazon because at
the time they were the clear leader in IaaS stuff but since then a
number
We did some tests on it, but found it a very poor fit for a site
dependent on huge amount of data which much be present to the
basically the whole system all the time and up-to-date. In other
words, we found it didn't match a site based on MySQL slaves
replicating here and there, and with
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