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Yes, I think you would be charged for those hours. If you need a server up 24/7 then EC2 is not the right provider for you; you should be looking at a more con
by sethg 18y ago
Yes, I think you would be charged for those hours.
If you need a server up 24/7 then EC2 is not the right provider for you; you should be looking at a more conventional hosting companies (Linode and Slicehost have already been mentioned here). EC2 is for people who expect they will need an extra server (or two, or ten) up for one (or two, or ten) hours out of every week, and for the rest of the week they don't care if that server is effectively turned off.
- cconstantine 18y agoThis is what I was afraid of. I'm playing around with a couple toy webapps at appengine because it's free, and I'd like to do the same with ec2. I really don't want to accidentally leave it 'on' and get a bill so I''ll continue avoiding it.
- ropiku 18y agoEC2 isn't free but it's pretty cheap, it starts from 0.10$/h. If you follow the tutorials on EC2 you'll see that it's pretty well explained how you see your running instances and how to stop them. There is also elasticfox, a Firefox plugin to manage your instances (and other complex commercial management tools)