I wish I could, but I'm in Washington DC now. I can point everyone in the direction of the Amazon Web Services page...
http://aws.amazon.com/ I use their EC2 service to have a public facing Linux server, and run some Icecast relays on it. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:56, Chris McQuistion <cmcquist...@watkins.edu> wrote: > Alex, is there any way you could do a demonstration about Amazon EC2/S3 some > day? > (Sorry to thread-jack, but I find Amazon's hosting really interesting and > I'd love to see someone really lay it all out and show how it would work, > from A-Z.) > Chris > > > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) > <shadowhun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> BTW I'm a paying user of AWS as well, and the largest bill I've had is >> about 15 dollars for data transfer, the S3 and EC2 products have >> usually been < $5.00/month. It's pretty cheap, and, like I said, I >> liked the product even before I started to work here. :) >> >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:47, Alex Smith (K4RNT) >> <shadowhun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Amazon has the Elastic Block Store product, as well as the famous >> > Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). >> > >> > http://aws.amazon.com/ >> > >> > This site can answer all your questions. >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:36, Andrew Farnsworth <farn...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> Very tempting on both cloud fronts, especially the free one. I am >> >> investigating what additional storage costs are as I have quite a bit >> >> of >> >> data (~0.5 TB) on my server that I would have to move so paying for the >> >> storage as well as the data move, unless they don't count the initial >> >> load >> >> in your network usage. I doubt the free hosting will allow me to stay >> >> free >> >> but pay for extra storage... we will see. >> >> >> >> Andy >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) >> >> <shadowhun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I work for Amazon and you can get up on their free tier for a year. >> >>> >> >>> http://aws.amazon.com/free/ >> >>> >> >>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:08, Steven S. Critchfield >> >>> <cri...@basesys.com> >> >>> wrote: >> >>> > A thought on the alternative options. Again a question of what you >> >>> > want >> >>> > to do >> >>> > with it. >> >>> > >> >>> > If you look at rackspace and pricing of a cloud computer, They have >> >>> > it >> >>> > down to >> >>> > $11 a month for the compute time and then add on your bandwidth. >> >>> > >> >>> > I priced it out for 512meg ram, 20gb drive, and 5gb each way and it >> >>> > specs for >> >>> > $23.20 a month. >> >>> > >> >>> > At $23.20 a month, you can be below the cost of housing your own >> >>> > server >> >>> > for about >> >>> > 2 years if the server costs $500. If you can live with half the >> >>> > memory >> >>> > and drive, >> >>> > you can extend that savings out to almost 4 years. >> >>> > >> >>> > Just something to think about. >> >>> > -- >> >>> > Steven Critchfield cri...@basesys.com >> >>> > >> >>> > -- >> >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >>> > Groups "NLUG" group. >> >>> > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >>> > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >>> > For more options, visit this group at >> >>> > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >>> > >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech >> >>> censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, >> >>> chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron >> >>> Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is >> >>> trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron >> >>> Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" >> >>> - Alex Smith (K4RNT) >> >>> - Falls Church, Virginia USA >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >>> Groups >> >>> "NLUG" group. >> >>> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >>> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >>> For more options, visit this group at >> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups >> >> "NLUG" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech >> > censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, >> > chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron >> > Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is >> > trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron >> > Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" >> > - Alex Smith (K4RNT) >> > - Falls Church, Virginia USA >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech >> censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, >> chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron >> Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is >> trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron >> Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" >> - Alex Smith (K4RNT) >> - Falls Church, Virginia USA >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. 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