Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

[Amos Shapira]

I own a Solid-Run Cubox-i4Pro with a couple of GB of RAM and 4 ARMv7 cores
and run OpenELEC on it. I don't think that running Jira + Confluence (each
requiring its own JVM) is practical on this hardware, in parallel to the
other things I use it for.

On 13 January 2015 at 05:57, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il>
wrote:

> I don't know what type of load JIRA presents but for low load private
> stuff a raspberrypi or something similar (for heavier but still fairly
> 'light' stuff maybe an Intel NUC system or a mini-itx system) at home +
> noip/dyndns or some other form of locating it by yourself can be more then
> enough....
>
> 2015-01-08 11:37 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>:
>
>> I was thinking about running it on my own laptop, and perhaps I will.
>>
>> But that would mean leaving it on around the clock which I don't want to
>> (I'm very conscious of power consumption, both economically and
>> environmentally), and I don't carry it with me most of the time but would
>> like to have access to my server from both my mobile and workplace.
>>
>> On 8 January 2015 at 19:59, Vitaly <linux at karasik.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Amos,
>>> IMHO, it's not technical, but more  "human" issue. For example, as far
>>> as you decide that you need Jira every last day of month, you can launch
>>> instance automatically.
>>> But typically Jira usage is more random, so I don't think  there is
>>> technical solution exist.
>>> If you're the only Jira user, why don't run it from your own computer
>>> for free?
>>>
>>> And, BTW, AWS reserved instances allow you to modify everything; plus
>>> up-front pay isn't must anymore.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Vitaly
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes I'm well aware of the RI option. It can save up to %70 for
>>>> high-load (i.e. machines which are up 24/7), but much less saving compared
>>>> to something that you can keep bringing up and down on demand.
>>>> Also the up-front cost is not cheap, and commits you to that type of
>>>> instance (as far as I remember, you can't buy switch or upgrade an RI slot,
>>>> what's paid is paid).
>>>>
>>>> On 8 January 2015 at 12:47, Aviram Jenik <aviram at jenik.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm not an AWS expert and would love to hear from those who are. But
>>>>> we do have a few (dozen) instances on AWS.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have them running 24/7. I get that you could start and stop on
>>>>> demand, but don't get how you would do that without changing the way you
>>>>> work in a drastic way (compared to a physical machine). To save costs, buy
>>>>> a 'reserved instance'. You are paying up front for 1-3 years (I recommend 3
>>>>> years) and then paying a very very low cost per hour. If your load is low,
>>>>> buy the 'low load' machine to save even more costs (but then you pay hire
>>>>> fees if you cross the threshold). I don't know how this works well enough -
>>>>> we always buy the 'high load' instance and buy them for 3 years; the total
>>>>> average cost is equivalent to what we would have paid for the hosting and
>>>>> so the hardware is "free".
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - Aviram
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do people here keep EC2 instances running?
>>>>>> Do you leave it running 24/7 or do you fire them up when you need
>>>>>> them?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to run my own EC2 instance running $10 Jira + $10 Confluence
>>>>>> (+$10 some extra useful add-ons) (to clarify - these are one-off $10 for
>>>>>> each product), but can't justify running a $30/month small EC2 (and perhaps
>>>>>> more, Jira alone requires 1.5-2GB of RAM) just to be used at most a few
>>>>>> hours a month if not less.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But logging in to the console to fire it up (or through aws cli, or
>>>>>> using an Android based app) every time I want to access it also would be
>>>>>> inconvenient.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So is there another way?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Amos
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> Linux-il mailing list
>>>>>> Linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
>>>>>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Linux-il mailing list
>>>> Linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
>>>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Linux-il mailing list
>> Linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
>>
>>
>


-- 
<http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/attachments/20150113/4f3ca1e7/attachment-0001.html>