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I don't think they are obfuscating it. If I remember correctly, their pricing page made perfectly clear that they used dedicated EC2 instances. Just for the re

I don't think they are obfuscating it. If I remember correctly, their pricing page made perfectly clear that they used dedicated EC2 instances. Just for the record - the cheapest EC2 instance type is t1.micro, and amounts to ~15 USD/month (+EBS and IP costs). I didn't see their business plan so I can't tell what is their big picture about that :-)

jarin 16y ago
Oh that's not bad at all, maybe they added that since the last time I looked or maybe I just missed it.
ridruejo 16y ago
If they use reserved instances, it should be even less than that. They still need to control abuse in terms of bandwidth, etc. and that is the difficult part.
- ceejayoz 16y ago
  It should be easy enough to throttle bandwidth on the instances.
  - ridruejo 16y ago
    As far as I know that cannot be done with standard Amazon tools
    - ceejayoz 16y ago
      You don't need it on Amazon's side - plenty of solutions exist that can be installed on the instances themselves. Apache throttling, for example.