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For what its worth, I posted the details of a month of running http://dltj.org/ out of an EC2 instance after I converted last year. The details are at: http://dltj.org/article/aws-hosting-cost/ It is a WordPress site that gets about 20,000 page views a month. Peter On Feb 22, 2012, at 5:00 PM, David Uspal 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] -- Peter Murray Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS [log in to unmask] +1 678-235-2955 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 800.999.8558 Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org LYRASIS: Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers.