On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Randall R Schulz
On Friday 25 April 2008 00:00, Mark V wrote:
That may seem inexpensive, but one of the reasons I'm not rushing to switch my Web application deployment to EC2 is that is is not cheap. A minimal installation (which would be a little under-powered in the CPU department for my purposes) is $0.10 per unit-hour. That's $72 / month if run continuously. Realistically, I'd need the mid-range machine configuration, which costs twice as much!
Yes for web applications, email, databases, etc it is not ideal at all since they need to run 24/7 and due to the disk and bandwidth charges. I made the same mistake and thought you were charged for actual CPU time used. Think of it like renting time on a mainframe as one once did. You can run your main servers still as you normally do in your datacenter but when you are running large batches you have an overflow you can use. Such as if you process documents for your clients but when you get a new client you need to process 1 million documents to get everything loaded into your systems and you don't want it to potentially disrupt or slow down anything. In these cases even if you have a large daily batch it would probably still be cheaper than buying a dedicated machine and paying for its power. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org