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I'd recommend you don't start with EC2, it's too expensive for what you get. Go to Linode or even a VPS provider. Look for the least expensive thing you can use
by aeden 16y ago
I'd recommend you don't start with EC2, it's too expensive for what you get. Go to Linode or even a VPS provider. Look for the least expensive thing you can use while still operating.
Second, use something like Chef to define your operational environments so that later if you do need to move to something else you've already got the automation to do it with as little effort as possible.
- aquark 16y agoI can see EC2 gets expensive for larger instances, but the micro instances make the economics more favourable. FWIW this is a low bandwidth app as well. For testing I can spin the server up and down as I need and literally pay per-hour (+ the storage cost). As far as I can tell providers like Linode don't provide that level of flexibility. Thanks for the suggestions about Chef (http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home) I hadn't come across it before.