On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:19:24PM -0700, Alvaro Carrasco wrote: > Amazon lets you do exactly that. It doesn't cost anything to sign up > and you'll only pay a few dollars (hourly usage, bandwidth, etc) to > try it for a couple of days. You can then delete the instance and pay > no more, keep paying the few dollars a day, or reserve an instance to > get a discount price. It is more work to set up a more complete system > since you'll probably have to use EBS (elastic block storage, another > service) for persistent storage, S3 for backups, etc. > But it's VERY easy and cheap to try.
Thanks for the info everyone, I am thinking strongly that we will use EC2. I am not sure that I understand EC2, it seems a little to good to be true. If I understand it correctly I don't need to set up a RAID, or consciously duplicate my data, because the virtualized EBS (elastic block storage) is already redundant, and I don't need to have a failover server, since the virtualized EC2 instance will persist even if the hardware fails. Is that your experience? Does all the virtualization great high latency? or other performance problem? It just sounds to easy... -Jordan _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
