Comments on: Demo server offline until EC2 costs less

By: themattreid

themattreid — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:40:07 +0000

Eventually one or two will come along and offer the same services and scalability and stability but for a reasonable cost. In addition, Amazon should give new users an idea of how much their bill will be for average use, high use, and 100% load – that way people don’t get suckered into thinking it won’t cost too much as is what occurred in my case. I know the pricing docs are there somewhere but they make it look like it will be much cheaper than it turns out to be.

By: themattreid

themattreid — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:38:21 +0000

Thanks for the reference to Linode Arjen, I’ll be checking them out shortly.

By: Frank Rizzo

Frank Rizzo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:39:07 +0000

This is why I avoid all “cloud” services like the plague.

By: Arjen Lentz

Arjen Lentz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:08:32 +0000

Hi Matt
The prob with EC2 is indeed the cost variability, which in many cases outweighs the flexibility gained elsewhere. It’s a risk many companies are not willing to take.
Linode might be a good option… fixed cost per month per server, and it has a complete API so you can even automatically deploy additional capacity should you want to do so.
–Arjen.