[IWE] Hosting

[Steve Lowe]

costs 10 cents per hour per instance. It's a complete virtual  
machine, so you can do whatever you want with it.  We're actively  
pursuing it to replace our aging hardware infrastructure at work.

On Feb 14, 2007, at 10:05 AM, williamoxley@aim.com wrote:

> What about all the fiddly bits? Zope, database, tricks needed to  
> keep it running, would there be access for that kind of stuff? Also  
> what is the hard cost?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tblanchard@mac.com
> To: iwe@warhead.org.uk
> Sent: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:47 AM
> Subject: [IWE] Hosting
>
> On Feb 14, 2007, at 4:00 AM, iwe-request@warhead.org.uk wrote:
>
>> This is certainly a perfect demonstration of why I've always
>> told my clients NEVER EVEN THINK ABOUT self hosting
>
> I think it would be of great benefit to put the thing on Amazon's  
> S3/EC2.  Backups can be made to S3 as many times a day as you like,  
> run one or more EC2 instances, never worry about dead hardware again.
>
> Probably cheaper too.
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