On Feb 22, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
Oh yeah, one other option is Amazon EC2. They are very scalable (a
perl
script can buy you a new machine on demand), but not quite as friendly
(if your instance crashes, all your data is lost). They are also kind
of expensive. If you use S3, though, you can save a lot of money with
the free EC2 <-> S3 transfers.
EC2 has persistent storage now (now meaning as of last April), so you
can have volumes on your hosts that are backed by S3, so you don't
lose your data when the instance goes away.
Ultimately though, if you don't need the flexibility of EC2 and are
planning to just have one host running 24/7, then EC2 is roughly the
same price as just getting a colocated server somewhere.
--
Jason Kohles, RHCA RHCDS RHCE
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"A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire
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