I just tried this. I have to say vps.net is much easier to use than amazon. They seem to be a little sloppy on security (amazon gave me no pem file, vps emailed back to the very same password I used to register). Here it is for a test:
http://68.169.39.35/book Hos fast/slow is it? Massimo On Feb 13, 6:26 pm, villas <villa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Massimo, > When I tried EC2 it was very time-consuming and the backups were > difficult and I was just wasting time. > > In the end I saved my sanity with vps.net which (for $20 per month) > takes your Ubuntu script about 5 mins to set up. There's a really good > backup service available by ticking a box for $5 per month extra. IMO > it's a no-brainer. And, as there's 256MB you'll be able to run 6 > instances of Web2py (if the 40Mb in the other thread is right)! > > I'm sure other vps providers are also excellent, I just chose that > one because they offer Europe as well as US and it's a good service. > Give yourself a break and leave the EC2 infrastructure for the global > mega-corporations! > > --David > > On Feb 12, 4:47 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > I am not suing any of the advanced features like load balancing. I > > have an Instance with EBS storage. I do not completely understand the > > backup process. I hope that making a snapshot of the storage results > > in data backup. Not clear to me how to recover from one the snapshots. > > > On Feb 12, 10:42 am,villas<villa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 12, 4:01 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > > hmmm that costs more money. > > > > Well, people moving to Amazon aren't going there to save any money, > > > that's for sure. The main thing you are paying for is the massive > > > global up-scaling you can instantly turn on. Must have geared up for > > > some big spikes on accessing that lovely new online book :-) D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
