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Amazon EC2 & S3 Service

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  • 20-01-2010 12:52pm
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    ve
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    I'm in the process of looking for a reliable Cloud hosting parter for a traditional LAMP stack, and have been shocked at the prices being quoted, approx €10k per annum to get up and running. I need something local.

    A friend told me about Amazon's EC2 (and that they're in Ireland) and if my calculations are correct we're talking hundreds, not thousands per annum to have the same thing available. They appear to have flat rate and "on demand" service rates, which is great when you have only a marginal idea of the levels of traffic you can expect initially.

    So here's the my questions:
    1. Has anyone used it/them before?
    2. What was your required setup?
    3. What sort of money did you end up paying?
    4. Was it difficult to manage (server management) and deploy?
    5. Was it easy for you to scale?
    6. Would you recommend this approach?

    One of my concerns with the "on demand" approach is that if your web applications became a target for DDoS attacks then surely that would have a significant impact on system resources required and your payment counter would go crazy, clocking up all sorts of figures.


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    cloudberryman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭cloudberryman


    Hey,

    EC2 is not a traditional hosting platform. The main advantages of the EC2 are

    1.you can easily scale up/ down according to your needs.
    2.you pay per hour.

    this allows you for instance to run a resource intensive calculation / processing for a couple of hours on thousands of machines and then shut them down when it is finished.

    I don't think EC2 is a good fit for traditional web hosting.

    As for management Amazon provides the online Management Console that helps you with all aspects of EC2 setup.

    Thanks
    Andy


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