EC2 users?

[Bob Elzer]

Well if you say it's about $80 a month, WITHOUT the data transfer costs,
that $960 a year.

For $960, I could build a sweet little Quad core system, and run VmWare or
Virtual Box 

Maybe a 64bit version of linux, with 8 or 16 GB of memory.

I should be able to run a few VM's with that, all with my feet on the ground
and not in the clouds. :-)



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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Austin
Godber
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:52 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: EC2 users?

The high price is only one drawback of using EC2 as a "leased" host.   
It makes a huge amount of sense if you use the API to launch instances and
do work for  you.  That is assuming you don't have a lot of data to transfer
because that become time and money consuming.  But if you think carefully
about what you want to accomplish you can typically make some use of it.

Austin


On Feb 11, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Carlos Macedo Gomes wrote:

> Cool.  We're galaxies away from the days of (slowly) loading Linux on 
> (usually surplus) gear using 20 or so (rawrite created) 1.44MB 
> floppies :-P.  Good times.
>
> Not sure if this has hit PLUGer's screens yet:
> "IBM Software Available on EC2 With Pay-As-You-Go Licensing Model"
> http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/02/ibm-software-now-available-on-payas
> yougo-basis.html
>
> <snip from above>
> We've teamed up with IBM to provide software developers with 
> pay-as-you-go access to development and production versions of IBM 
> Information Management database servers, IBM Lotus(R) content 
> management, and IBM WebSphere(R) portal and middleware products, all 
> running on Novell's SUSE Linux on Amazon EC2.</snip>
>
> Now if only the price could drop by a good factor... Maybe an economy 
> subscriber model for only 90% uptime instead of 4-Nines :-).
>
> ymmv,
> C.G.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Been really getting into the APIs lately.  the scaling potential for
>> EC2 apps is awesome.  The primary detractor is price.
>>
>> I might publish my AMI, its Ubuntu + Java web stack.  Also, thanks 
>> again to Lisa for working out some of the initial problems I had with 
>> SSH keys.
>>
>> -jmz
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Austin Godber <godber at uberhip.com>
>> wrote:
>>> These have always been sufficient for my general purpose needs:
>>>       http://alestic.com/
>>> They even provide the scripts they used to build them.
>>>
>>> Otherwise I have made my own AMIs.
>>>
>>> Austin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>>>
>>>> do you recommend any Ubuntu AMIs?
>>>>
>>>> -jmz
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Austin Godber <godber at uberhip.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Yes, quite a bit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Austin
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> anyone using EC2 on a regular basis here?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -jmz
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