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I'd also be interested in getting some real world cost information. I installed an app on EC2 that went mostly unused for a couple months but meanwhile racked up over $300 in charges. Color me surprised. Roy On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:00 PM, David Uspal <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Erik, > > We did a study a few months ago to evaluate the Amazon EC2 as an > alternative host to both physical and virtual server spaces managed in > house. Won't go into too much detail on it (unless people are interested), > but our benchmark tests showed the performance of the EC2 consistently beat > the performance of our in-house servers. > The only big issue we had was cost, where our estimation of the price of > running our servers off the EC2 would make actually doing so prohibitive. > There were also some confusing fees built in the payment model, the one off > the top of my head being "x cents per million I/O operations". As someone > who went with the EC2 and is running one currently, could you comment quick > on your monthly costs (though I understand though if you don't want to > release that information.) Thanks. > > > David K. Uspal > Technology Development Specialist > Falvey Memorial Library > Phone: 610-519-8954 > Email: [log in to unmask] > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Erik Mitchell > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:22 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Any libraries have their sites hosted on Amazon > EC2? > > Hi Nate > > When I was at Wake Forest University we moved a large chunk of our web > services to Amazon and it worked out well. We chose Amazon because at > the time they were the clear leader in IaaS stuff but since then a > number of providers (Linode and Rackspace are two) have emerged as > alternatives. > > As for why we moved that is a long story :) > > Erik > > On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Nate Hill <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Apologies for cross-posting. > > If yes, I'd love to hear why you chose to and how that is working out for > > you. > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Nate Hill > > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.natehill.net >