Does anyone have experience with Mosso, which seems to be a competitor to EC2?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:17 AM, steve ulrich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sulrich@botwerks.org">sulrich@botwerks.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Elvedin Trnjanin <<a href="mailto:trnja001@umn.edu">trnja001@umn.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Perry Hoekstra wrote:<br>
>> It is not running on VMWare, it is its own animal. However, you can run<br>
>> any flavor of Linux that you care to on EC2.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
> Technically, the hypervisor is Xen. It's easiest to run whatever machine<br>
> images are already available.<br>
>> My first question to you is, if the instance went down or was unstable,<br>
>> what would be the impact?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
> I assume it would be the same answer as any other machine.<br>
>> If you are running MySQL within EC2, you need to have backups to Amazon<br>
>> S3. That way, if you lose the instance, the backup data is sitting in S3.<br>
>><br>
>> Perry Hoekstra<br>
>><br>
>><br>
><br>
> As for suggestions from me, even the smallest instance will cost you at<br>
> least $70 per month. Add on storage, the amount of IO transactions, plus<br>
> bandwidth, and you end up with something more expensive than a dedicated<br>
> server that works about the same but does not perform as well. If you're<br>
> doing a database in EC2 and you're storing the database files in S3,<br>
> that's going to be quite slow as the files would be on something that is<br>
> essentially an NFS server. The only benefit is quality bandwidth and<br>
> being able to bring up a new instance on demand.<br>
><br>
> If you're looking for other providers to compare, try out Slicehost.<br>
<br>
</div>having spent a good chunk of time with EC2 for various projects i'd<br>
echo these sentiments. EC2 really shines when you're looking to do<br>
something which requires incremental addition of compute capacity to<br>
deal with capacity requirements or you need to split problems up<br>
across a bunch of hardware for variable and typically short amounts of<br>
time.<br>
<br>
if you're looking for something to host your personal domains, mail,<br>
etc you'll likely be better off with a virtual private server solution<br>
from any number of reputable hosting providers. the pricing for these<br>
services with a year contract can be had for much lower price points.<br>
godaddy for example can get you a respectable VPS server for 30-40 /<br>
month.<br>
<br>
a small CPU configuration on amazon's ec2 will run you ~$75 / month as<br>
noted and some unique hoops to jump through which you won't<br>
necessarily need to jump through w/a VPS at a commodity hosting<br>
provider.<br>
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>> John Gateley wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Hi Y'all,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I've been running a home server (DNS, e-mail, web server, database)<br>
>>> for several years. I think it is time to move offsite. Anyone tried<br>
>>> EC2 for this? It looks like EC2 is a thin layer on top of VMware so<br>
>>> I could run what I needed.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I can use godaddy for DNS, so I don't need that anymore.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I use qmail for mail, and I'd like to keep that, I have a somewhat<br>
>>> complex setup.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I'm running apache2 and a few wikis hitting MySQL.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Suggestions?<br>
>>><br>
>>> j<br>
>>><br>
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