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Except for the part where I can fire up a $19.95/month Linode instance for running MySQL, sure. The advantage of Amazon is not cost, it's flexibility and ease-
by heretohelp 14y ago
Except for the part where I can fire up a $19.95/month Linode instance for running MySQL, sure.
The advantage of Amazon is not cost, it's flexibility and ease-of-use. Questionable ease-of-use at that, given how horrid their web UI is.
The vendor lock-in is concerning as well (not for RDS, more for other things).