[HLUG] Just been playing with Amazon EC2

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk
Wed Jul 14 08:44:36 UTC 2010


Quoting Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
> I've just been playing with Amazon's EC2, https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ ie
> Cloud Computing - really not too difficult to get into at all.
>
> Well worth it if you need a web based server in a hurry
>
> There's a good little feature about this in latest Linux magazine.

Just be aware of the cost issues, I worked out that it would cost  
around $62 per month for a basic VPS with nothing running on it.

There are many other companies out there with Instant setup that will  
give you a VPS for much less than that... :)

M.
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