The Amazon deployment also feel faster than the old from here (Norway). -sveinh
On Feb 5, 10:01 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > Comparing apples to apples is different. Mostly I am playing with EC2 > and this is not a definitive decision. > > It is true that normal shared hosting is much cheaper but I want > access to the apache config file. > > So I compared pricing of EC2 with some VPS hosting and I found it > similar. I need a single instance. As far as I understand Amazon will > charge a fixed amount for the server (0.085/hour * 24hours/month * > 30months) + somthing for EBS and something for traffic. I cannot > really quantify those numbers so I ma hoping this experiment will help > me understand. > > The current web2py.com is hosted on a virtual machine running on one > core of a 8 cores power mac in my office. It is a university so we > have very high speed networks. Everybody seems to complain that the > amazon network is slow. > > Massimo > > On Feb 5, 2:37 pm, Pystar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Massimo, > > I am really interested in the costs implications of hosting the web2py > > website on EC2, since you will be billed by computing hours. Wouldn't > > a host like Slicehost or Linode have made most sense economically? or > > is there a hidden advantage that you have discovered? Also, I am > > browsing the site from Lagos, Nigeria and found out that the web2py > > website on EC2 tends to load rather slower than the one on the old > > host, why is that? > > Thanks Pystar. > > > On Feb 5, 7:46 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am considering moving web2py hosting to EC2. > > > > I have set it up here: > > > >http://ec2-75-101-229-191.compute-1.amazonaws.com/http://ec2-75-101-2... > > > > Can you please try before I change the DNS? > > > > I am also writing instructions on how to post on EC2. Will be done > > > soon. > > > > Massimo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
