RE: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Bob Elzer
ll with my feet on the ground and not in the clouds. :-) -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Austin Godber Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:52 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subjec

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Austin Godber
The high price is only one drawback of using EC2 as a "leased" host. It makes a huge amount of sense if you use the API to launch instances and do work for you. That is assuming you don't have a lot of data to transfer because that become time and money consuming. But if you think caref

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Carlos Macedo Gomes
Cool. We're galaxies away from the days of (slowly) loading Linux on (usually surplus) gear using 20 or so (rawrite created) 1.44MB floppies :-P. Good times. Not sure if this has hit PLUGer's screens yet: "IBM Software Available on EC2 With Pay-As-You-Go Licensing Model" http://aws.typepad.com/a

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua Zeidner
Been really getting into the APIs lately. the scaling potential for EC2 apps is awesome. The primary detractor is price. I might publish my AMI, its Ubuntu + Java web stack. Also, thanks again to Lisa for working out some of the initial problems I had with SSH keys. -jmz On Wed, Feb 11,

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Austin Godber
These have always been sufficient for my general purpose needs: http://alestic.com/ They even provide the scripts they used to build them. Otherwise I have made my own AMIs. Austin On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > do you recommend any Ubuntu AMIs? > > -jmz > > On

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Carlos Macedo Gomes
I'm using AWS (i.e., the online disk space portion) on a pretty regular basis for small online backups and automated synchronization between devices. Have been using it since Fall 08 and am very pleased. As for Elastic Computing (EC2), last year I kicked the tires on couple virtual computer image

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua Zeidner
do you recommend any Ubuntu AMIs? -jmz On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Austin Godber wrote: > Yes, quite a bit. > > Austin > > On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > >> hello, >> >> anyone using EC2 on a regular basis here? >> >> -jmz >> --

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Austin Godber
Yes, quite a bit. Austin On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > hello, > > anyone using EC2 on a regular basis here? > > -jmz > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or t

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua Zeidner
ya Amazon EC2... jmz On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Stephen wrote: > honestly no, but it looks neat. > > your talking about the Amazon Web Services EC2 right? > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: >> hello, >> >> anyone using EC2 on a regular basis here? >> >> -jmz >> --

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Stephen
honestly no, but it looks neat. your talking about the Amazon Web Services EC2 right? On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > hello, > > anyone using EC2 on a regular basis here? > > -jmz > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-d

EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua Zeidner
hello, anyone using EC2 on a regular basis here? -jmz --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss