Daily Archives: August 24th, 2006

Way better than a lava lamp!

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When you should (and should not) think about using Amazon EC2

The Amazon AWS team has done it again. And EC2 is generating quite the talk. Perhaps I’ve not been watching the blogosphere closely enough about anything in particular until now (very likely) but I’ve not really seen this much general excitement. The ferver I see going around is alot like a kid at christmas. You [...]

As a side note…

I’ve also subscribed to an Amazon EC2 search at pubsup, technorati, and feedster. I’ll be watching the 3 to see which yeilds the most A) unique, and B) valuable results over time. At the time of subscription PubSub: 0 New Hits, 0 Good, 0 Bad Technorati: 20 New Hits, 15 Good, 5 Bad Feedster: 10 [...]

Oh… And…

I would also expect that, to save money for their users you will be seeing FreeBSD, Gentoo, Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian mirrors by EC2 and for EC2… (e.g. no traffic allowed except inside the DC.) And if Amazon is *SMART* they will provide this service to the distributions at no charge. This will, almost [...]

The internet is all a-buz about amazon

And rightly so! Amazon has, quite simply, outdone themselves this time. However before we go running through the streets lets make sure the emperor really does wear clothes. A very common configuration of server provided by hosting companies is: 1 Server, 1Gb ram, 80Gb HDD, 1000Gb transfer. This runs $70-$80 for low end hosting, and [...]