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Maybe not as huge a deal for Linux instances, but this is HUGE for Windows users. There's nothing comparable elsewhere. The cheapest Rackspace Cloud instance is
by johns 16y ago
Maybe not as huge a deal for Linux instances, but this is HUGE for Windows users. There's nothing comparable elsewhere. The cheapest Rackspace Cloud instance is $0.08/hour for 1GB. There is no faster, cheaper way to spin up a Windows server than AWS now.
- brc 16y agoYes but 600mb on a windows server doesn't give you a lot of room to play with. I'm struggling to think of a use-case but I'm sure there are many.
- johns 16y agoYeah, they're not going to run SQL Server. It's plenty for just serving up some simple stuff. I use the small instances mostly for testing stuff out with different configurations and running small short-term side projects. These will work perfectly for that.
- swombat 16y agoDo those have VNC support, though? Could you pay $14 and have a remote IE instance that the whole team can access no matter where they are, instead of using up your precious local memory on every machine?
- johns 16y agoThey support Remote Desktop, but since they're Server 2008 the only IE instance you could run on it is IE8.
- eli 16y agoYou could probably use one of the hacky solutions like IETester (http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage) for older versions. I'd much rather run IE locally in a VM though.
- ido 16y agoLocal memory is precious in these days of mid-range machines with 6gb+ ram (win xp in a VM doesn't take that much ram)?
- smhinsey 16y agoThis seems like an excellent opportunity for hosting Server Core, particularly as a front-end web server.