Amazon EC2 hosting,

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Hi,

I am considering using EC2 for a web application.
> I am not sure how to calculate the payment per month.
> Do I pay only for the time someone makes a request?
> For example, I have a user who requests a certain report and it takes 1
> second to load the report request form, then 20 seconds to produce the
> report and print it.
> I understand that I pay for 21 seconds?
> So if I have 100 customers doing the same thing each day, I pay for 35
> minutes (2100 seconds)?
>
> It seems to be very cheap.
>

Not exactly.
As long as your VPS is up, you pay per hour, whether the machine just sits
idle or super busy.
You also pay for traffic, per GB in or out.

Hetz



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>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Gadi Cohen <dragon at wastelands.net>wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/08/2010 00:00, Maxim Veksler wrote:
>>> > Are you familiar with EC2  cc1.4xlarge instance type ?
>>> >
>>> > http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
>>>
>>> Not really... I did have a look around there a while back, but it just
>>> seemed overly complicated.  I like paying a flat rate and knowing
>>> exactly what I get, especially since it's more than enough power for me
>>> for the next little while.  Also with 16 cores can I quite easily divide
>>> my work into nice little VMs (xen-based), which I believe (but am not
>>> sure) that I could migrate to the cloud at a later stage.
>>>
>>> It says bandwidth is free until November... then what?
>>>
>>> Or more importantly... assuming you are in fact a proud owner of an
>>> xlarge instance, please share your use case and experiences with us :)
>>>
>>> Gadi
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