It's a little complicated and based on instance size, usage (time) and bandwidth
Here's the charts: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing Robert -----Original Message----- From: Rich [mailto:r...@ogdengroup.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:05 PM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: the cloud... What are the costs? -----Original Message----- From: Robert Shubert [mailto:rshub...@tronics.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:46 PM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: the cloud... Sounds pretty cool. I've been running applications in the Ec2 cloud for about a year and a half now and have always been impressed with its performance and pricing. I'm a little too attached to my hardware and my cage to give it all up at this time, but moving to a cloud service is certainly something I roll around in my head from time to time - especially for particularly big and/or complicated customers who don't necessarily "fit" in my setup. Thanks for the info, and if you get time to write out some of the specifics (or make an AMI publicly available) let us know! Robert -----Original Message----- From: Robert Garcia [mailto:wita...@bighead.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:02 PM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: Witango-Talk: the cloud... I haven't had time to blog, but I thought I would post. I just finished moving our ENTIRE datacenter to the Amazon EC2 Cloud. I have been toying with the idea for a while. I did earnest research and testing over the last few months and then bit the bullet starting the thanksgiving weekend. There were definitely some issue along the way, and it is very complicated unless you use their own off the shelf AMI images, which I did not. I am amazed at the speed of the mysql system and the speed and performance of the sites. We still have a few old witango sites, so those are running on 2 witango instances on win2003r2 and then many sites on PHP, some on Zend Platform, and others just on PHP 5.2 from the Zend Core. Other than the fact that I have a warehouse full of unused servers, I am love with the fact of not having to deal with hardware anymore. I have saved AMIs for witango and/or php. So if an app is getting hammered I can launch a new instance and have it in the queue in minutes. The same goes for scaling down. So, for the record, witango and PHP work very well in the cloud, along with mysql. Keep in mind there are many setup tweaks and guidelines to follow, especially with mysql, but once you get it worked out, its amazing. One of the greatest advantages is snapshot backups. I can make a point in time backup snapshot of our 400 Gigabyte mysql server in about 10 seconds. It can even be done during load times, it will just "pause" the system for a few seconds. Pretty amazing. I feel sorry for the guys that ran my datacenter, they have a lot of empty space now, but I gave them many warnings and heads up previous to the move. -- Robert Garcia President - BigHead Technology VP Application Development - eventpix.com 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, Ca 95954 ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 rgar...@bighead.net - rgar...@eventpix.com http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
