Cloud computing is basically resources that you don't have to pay for when you don't use them and no long-term commitments.
We use Amazon Web Services and can change our setup on an hourly basis. We just finished consolidating some low utilization servers with Amazon EC2. We cut our costs down to about $.035/hr. And we really like that we can turn on and off development/testing servers and only pay for them when we need them, those are currently running about $.007/hr. We also leverage Amazon to serve our static files (javascript, image & css) from S3 and CloudFront. That traffic doesn't even hit our servers. On May 9, 2011, at 8:33 PM, raj wrote: > I'm sort of new to all of this, why cloud computing? What exactly is > the advantage of it. I'm not quite sure how all of this works. I > looked at the rackspace cloud website, and it looked confusing. Like a > server is like greater than $750 a month. I'm not really connecting > all the dots together. I don't really understand your second statement > either... I really want to learn all of this stuff. Please help. Thank > you! > Sincerely, > -Raj > > On May 9, 10:38 pm, Greg Donald <gdon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:25 PM, raj <nano.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> what hosting websites >>> would handle it? >> >> Any host that does cloud-based virtual servers will work. I use >> Rackspace Cloud. >> >> Put on your sysadmin hat, spin up an instance and go. No real need to >> depend on a host to "support" anything nowadays. >> >> -- >> Greg Donald >> destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
