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Hosting on EC2 is stupid, it's way more expensive than linode or slicehost. I accidentally left one of their extra large slices running for a month, and it cos
by jawngee 18y ago
Hosting on EC2 is stupid, it's way more expensive than linode or slicehost. I accidentally left one of their extra large slices running for a month, and it cost almost $600. You can get real metal for those prices.
That said, if you have no problems setting up dedicated servers, than you won't have any problems with EC2. Use rightscale's free interface to manage instances, the rest is what you already know.
- anotherjesse 18y agoHosting on EC2 might not be cost effective when you only need one server, but once you start need multiple servers the advantages quickly add up. I'm currently a customer of Amazon, Softlayer, Serverbeach and few cheap VPS elsewhere. I find that each has their advantages. Need cheap bandwidth - nothing beats Serverbeach (youtube ran their CDN on serverbeach boxes until they went to google). If you need a small number of dedicated boxes, Softlayers support is worth the extra money (I usually get softlayer boxes for about $50+serverbeach costs -- and softlayer includes private net in that cost). EC2 is great if you are going to be scaling up/down or have interesting synergies with S3. (filesystem snapshotting, free bandwidth, ...) Small VPSes are great when you are building to prove an idea - a couple bucks a month while you have no traffic. I also find using EC2 for one time tasks preferable. Spin up 10 instances to do a massive amount of computation or to do load testing.
- timf 18y agoDo you have any experience with 10tb.com (or heard anything about them)? Their bandwidth prices list as better than serverbeach.