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If I'm understanding EC2 pricing, this looks a lot cheaper. What's the downside of using crestle instead of AWS for the course?

• anurag 9y ago
  (I built Crestle.) The downside is you don't get as much control over your environment (you get a terminal in the browser, but no SSH or sudo access, for example). If you have the inclination and ability to manage your own instances, EC2 is more flexible.
  • praseodym 9y ago
    Just wondering: what kind of infrastructure are you running on? If I were to build something like this I'd probably run it atop of EC2 or GCE, so pricing would never be lower than them.
    • ErikBjare 9y ago
      If people aren't fully utilizing their instances, you can offer lower prices since you can have more than one user per underlying instance. Not sure that's how he does it, but it's one way.
    • anurag 9y ago
      It's running on EC2 and uses spot pricing which is much lower than $0.90/hour.
  • mcintyre1994 9y ago
    This looks great, can you give any idea of what your invite request queue looks like/how long I might be waiting?
    • anurag 9y ago
      You'll get an invite as soon as you sign up.