Amazon lets you do exactly that. It doesn't cost anything to sign up and you'll only pay a few dollars (hourly usage, bandwidth, etc) to try it for a couple of days. You can then delete the instance and pay no more, keep paying the few dollars a day, or reserve an instance to get a discount price. It is more work to set up a more complete system since you'll probably have to use EBS (elastic block storage, another service) for persistent storage, S3 for backups, etc. But it's VERY easy and cheap to try.
Alvaro (sorry for the duplicate, i meant to reply-to-all) On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Merrill Oveson <[email protected]> wrote: > I need a solution where I can remote in to say a super high powered > (tons of processing power, ram, etc) windows 7, windows 2008 machine > run some processes and pay for the time or however they charge. Kind > of goes back to the old days of renting cpu cycles. > > Does Amazon EC2 do this? > > Is there anyone local who does this - xmission? (Kind of nice to be > able to talk to a human being and get the details, Amazon seems to > just have a link on their website "sign up here.") > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Jordan Schatz <[email protected]> wrote: >> Anyone have experience / opinions with Amazon EC2? >> >> Where I work is ready to move to managing our own hosts, and I am >> thinking this could save us alot of money over co-locating several hosts >> with Xmission or Consonus. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Our top priority is reliability, preferably at the best price. >> >> Thanks, >> Jordan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> UPHPU mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu >> IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net >> > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
