[Cialug] Fwd: Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

[Kenneth Younger]

No, but if you find some useful resources, please pass them along. I'll do
the same :)

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> Somethign I've still not done on EC2 is run MySQL. I know that Amazon
> has a service that makes this easier but I've not played with it yet.
> Anyone able to summarize how it works?
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Kenneth Younger <kyounger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Wow. I'm at Rackspace right now, because their prices were better, but
> this
> > might just have me switch back.
> >
> > One of the other benefits that EC2 offers is the high-memory or high-CPU
> > instances. Rackspace just gives you a proportionate amount more RAM,
> Disk,
> > and CPU in their next-larger instance size. One of the instances I plan
> on
> > running will be a Memcache server, which I was just going to have
> co-exists
> > with the file server, but this lets me separate those out. Me likey.
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:11 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >> > 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?
> >>
> >> The fee is per hour that the instance is running. So if it's idle you
> >> get charged. There are no partial hours, so if you use it for 1 min or
> >> 42 min or 60 min it's one hour.
> >>
> >> The only additional charges are for bandwidth and storage. Both are
> >> ridiculously cheap. I have a few gigs of data on S3 and my cost is
> >> pennies a month.
> >>
> >> EC2 is not like a normal vps though. There is, by default at least, no
> >> persistent storage. So if you boot it up, install nagios and then shut
> >> it down, when you boot it up again you'll have to install nagios
> >> again. You have to deliberately create persistent storage.
> >>
> >> A common way is to customize your server installation and then create
> >> a snapshot of this and in the future, instead of booting a default
> >> image, boot your snapshot. This uses some of your storage space so if
> >> you have a 2GB snapshot (that's quite big) you'll add $0.30 per month
> >> to your cost. The benefit to this is huge, though. If you have a
> >> website that scales horizontally (i.e. one server can handle 50 users,
> >> two can handle 100 users, three 150 and etc) then you can use EC2 to
> >> automatically spawn additional instances when your main server's load
> >> reach 70% (or whatever) and then automatically shut them down when the
> >> utilization drops. The rule system is quite sophisticated so you have
> >> a lot of flexibility.
> >>
> >> The cost to experiment with these is so piddly that for $5 you can
> >> spend a weekend becoming an expert, or less than $1 to give it a quick
> >> try.
> >>
> >> Here are instructions: http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/public/deploy In
> >> the time it takes to download a CD ISO you could have 10 servers up
> >> and running.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Matthew Nuzum
> >> newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, identi.ca and twitter
> >>
> >> "Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way." –Robert Nuzum (My dad)
> >> summarizing an old military quote
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