On 04 Feb 2010, at 14:43, Jordan Schatz 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. >
When you say, "managing our own hosts", does that mean that you want to maintain the hardware, OS, security updates, software updates, etc. yourself? Or just that you want full root access to your own server so you can install what you want and configure it the way you want it? I have played around with EC2. From what I understand, instances do actually go down and if you do not have a backup or if you are not booting from an EBS your system is gone forever, as has been mentioned already. While EC2 has benefits, there are also drawbacks. There are some third-party service providers (like rightscale.com) that provide some extra help in managing your AWS services. You could look into those. However, if you (your company) do not want to worry about maintaining hardware and keeping up on OS patches, security update, and other core software issues, then a VPS or managed private server may be a good option. _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
