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From: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) 2 Nov 2009 16:14
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I think these were mentioned as a possible hosting provider. I've just set up a $20pcm 256GB slice with them for some R&D I'm doing, so I'll let you know how I get on with it.

 

Now, Postgre or My...?

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From: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) 2 Nov 2009 16:41
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Like it so far. Ubuntu 9.1 slice up and running with SSH access to static IP address in under five minutes. Got ruby, postgre and lighttpd installed without issue.
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From: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) 2 Nov 2009 17:54
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The SliceManager interface is really nice and easy to use. And there's good documentation on everything I've done so far.
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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 2 Nov 2009 18:44
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if you don't need it running 24-7 or static ip, amazon EC2 is considerably cheaper (e.g. my last month bill came in @ $1.43).
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From: Dan (HERMAND) 2 Nov 2009 18:51
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Ooh, if I wasn't meddling with reseller hosting too I think I'd have a little play with that.

 

Very smart.

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From: THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE) 3 Nov 2009 01:12
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Actually, EC2 is getting quite competitive generally, even to have an instance running 24/7 is only $60 a month plus whatever bandwidth you use at about $1.7 for 10GB.

 

I can't work out what the hell they're on about with their Elastic IP thing, though.

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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 3 Nov 2009 01:42
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Apparently you can remap a 'static' ip to different instances on the fly, without needing to wait for dns to catch up since it is resolved internally by amazon? In so many words...

Elastic IP addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing. An Elastic IP address is associated with your account not a particular instance, and you control that address until you choose to explicitly release it. Unlike traditional static IP addresses, however, Elastic IP addresses allow you to mask instance or Availability Zone failures by programmatically remapping your public IP addresses to any instance in your account. Rather than waiting on a data technician to reconfigure or replace your host, or waiting for DNS to propagate to all of your customers, Amazon EC2 enables you to engineer around problems with your instance or software by quickly remapping your Elastic IP address to a replacement instance.
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