[Cialug] Fwd: Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

[L. V. Lammert]

At 08:48 AM 9/9/2010, you wrote:
>EC2 has been a very cheap way to experiment with servers in the past
>at $0.075 per hour but that ran to $54/mo if you used it full time.
>This new instance brings the price down to $14 /mo for a full time
>instance which puts it into the same ballpark as a linode ($20/mo but
>not an apples to apples comparison).

Any feel of how the 'per hour' translates to actual usage? For 
example, does the cost structure actually product no charge when a 
web site is not getting page request? Does a system ever use *more* 
than the .02/hr?

         Lee