[cfaussie] Amazon EC2 hosting services viability
I have been looking at the EC2 services and trying to work out if it is cost effective or not and so far it is coming way short. I am running windows servers and based on the calculator at http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html is will cost between $450 and $500 per month per instance to host, plus an extra $50ish for data. I have a rack with 7 servers and a few VMs running other services, so based on those numbers, to move my whole network into the cloud it will cost me over $6,000.00 to move my network into the cloud. So i guess the question is, where do the savings come from? Just from bandwith? I appreciate there is the whole on demand elastic side of it but from a cost-benefit perspective, is it really worth it? Has anyone done the move and actually found cost benefits? Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
Re: [cfaussie] Amazon EC2 hosting services viability
Whilst I haven't moved to the cloud, a couple of questions come to mind. You haven't indicated what you currently spending per month to run your current system and if you own the hardware. If you own the hardware, have you factored in the replacement costs and the costs to upgrade the hardware and how often you replace your hardware. With Amazon, I suspect the hardware is consistently being upgraded the only effort on your part is to stop, move and restart an instance and you've upgraded. Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Adobe Platform Users Group, Sydney m: 0415 469 095 www.apugs.org.au Adobe Platform Users Group, Sydney Topic: Deploying Coldfusion into the Cloud Date: 26th September 6pm for 6:30 start Details and RSVP on http://apugs.groups.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=post.display&postid=38239 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
Re: [cfaussie] Amazon EC2 hosting services viability
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Steve Onnis wrote: > I am running windows servers and based on the calculator at > http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html is will cost between > $450 and $500 per month per instance to host, plus an extra $50ish for > data. Could you provide a bit more detail on how you arrived at those numbers? I suspect you're assuming a much larger instance than you really need. The real key with EC2 is figuring out a minimal baseline to deal with your "quiet time" and then scaling up when you need it. The "cloud" isn't a great replacement for your data center unless your traffic is low by default - where you don't need your full data center - but has spikes which are as high or higher than your data center capability. Where I work, our traffic is seasonal: substantially higher in winter than summer. That means we could scale cloud hosting to our summer traffic and add capability in the winter. We could probably save a boatload of money. Also, if you're comparing managed services to cloud services, the cloud will look attractive - but if you're comparing bare bones VPS or dedicated servers that you fully manage yourself, the cloud will look expensive. Over the last four years, I've run production infrastructure in a combination of cloud, data center, and local servers. Every situation is different but you need to weigh up all the costs (and benefits). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
RE: [cfaussie] Amazon EC2 hosting services viability
Adding to all the helpful replies form others on this, I'll add that just last night at the Atlanta CFUG we had a really well-informed speaker, a long-time CFer who has done a lot of work with redeployment of CF and Railo servers to Amazon's cloud offering. I'm hoping to have him present his talk on the Online CFMeetup sometime soon. It was really well-received. In the meantime, Steve, his name is Jeremy Bruck, and he does consulting to help people move to the cloud. I'm sure he'd welcome you reaching out to see how he can help (i...@growstrategy.com). /charlie > -Original Message- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Steve Onnis > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 9:10 PM > To: cfaussie > Subject: [cfaussie] Amazon EC2 hosting services viability > > I have been looking at the EC2 services and trying to work out if it > is cost effective or not and so far it is coming way short. > > I am running windows servers and based on the calculator at > http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html is will cost between > $450 and $500 per month per instance to host, plus an extra $50ish for > data. I have a rack with 7 servers and a few VMs running other > services, so based on those numbers, to move my whole network into > the cloud it will cost me over $6,000.00 to move my network into the > cloud. > > So i guess the question is, where do the savings come from? Just from > bandwith? I appreciate there is the whole on demand elastic side of > it but from a cost-benefit perspective, is it really worth it? > > Has anyone done the move and actually found cost benefits? > > > Steve > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "cfaussie" group. > To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
