On Jul 31, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Bob La Quey wrote:
Also I am not certain why I am supposed to care what other services,
bots and spammers, Amazon hosts. You might care to elaborate. You
might as well say, don't use the net, it is full of bots and spammers.
BobLQ "This could be the start of an useful dialog. Or not."
You would only care that a good portion of Amazon's EC2 address space
has been blacklisted due to the spam problem. But if you're just
hosting media, and not sending email, then it's probably a non-issue.
There is one other company offering something very similar to what
Amazon does that's worth a look for anyone considering utility
computing:
http://www.gogrid.com/
The two key features GoGrid claims over AWS are 1) Windows available
as guest OS; 2) free use of F5 load balancer (on AWS you have to build
your own).
If neither of those are useful to your situation, then I think
Amazon's pricing works out better.
Also if you're writing in Django, Google's AppEngine may possibly be
useful for you.
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