Re: [WebDNA] Amazon EC2
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texte = Paul, your review and comparison was great, thanks very much. I'm sold on Amazon's services too, especially for high traffic intermittent use, but I didn't realize that their reserve instances were so competitively priced -- so I'm especially grateful that you've already crunched the numbers and reported your conclusions here. Sincerely, Ken Grome > > From the outset, it looks like a medium instance runs > > at a base price around $300/mo, then goes up from their > > with the different misc. costs.. data transfer, etc.. > > > > Whereas, One can glean a virtual machine from GoDaddy > > for $30/mo. > > > > However, the GoDaddy virtual server, in our test, does > > not have great performance. Any reports on Amazon Cloud > > performance? > > > > Maybe I am reading the pricing structure wrong? > > I think you are comparing apples and oranges... > > The smallest of the Amazon instances has 1.7GB of RAM > compared to your $30 Godaddy's 256 MB and "the equivalent > CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon > processor" rather than unknown shared CPU. > > You have access to unlimited storage space on Amazon (S3 > on a pay as you use basis) rather than a fixed 10GB > > I don't have any performance figures but each instance > has dedicated CPU, memory and instance storage so it's > more like a GoDaddy Dedicated Server. > > ...etc etc. > > If you plan to run an instance 24/7 you should look at > the Reserved ones. You pay an annual up front fee and > then a lower hourly running cost. Overall they work out > roughly half the price of on-demand instances if you run > them 24/7. > > A small Reserved instance works out at $49 pm ($22 > monthly 24/7 usage + $325 / 12 annual fee) > > The on-demand instances are priced for you start them up > and shut them down as a when you wanrt and only pay for > the time you use. > > > Anyway, it would be interesting to hear more comments > > on this subject. > > I could go on about all the other features and advantages > of AWS, I'm completely sold on the idea, but as others > have pointed out the original idea here was that you > create an AMI so that developers can rent a WebDNA server > by the hour for as long as they need it. Not only would > WebDNA Software Corporation make a few cents per hour on > every server that was launched but it could also expose > WebDNA to a wider audience. > > Ken wouldn't need to buy 10 WebDNA licences he could just > buy one to have on a WebDNA instance 24/7 and instal it > as normal then when he needed extra capacity he could > launch 9 instances of your AMI paying you a couple of > cents per hour till he shuts them down again. > > Paul
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Paul, your review and comparison was great, thanks very much. I'm sold on Amazon's services too, especially for high traffic intermittent use, but I didn't realize that their reserve instances were so competitively priced -- so I'm especially grateful that you've already crunched the numbers and reported your conclusions here. Sincerely, Ken Grome > > From the outset, it looks like a medium instance runs > > at a base price around $300/mo, then goes up from their > > with the different misc. costs.. data transfer, etc.. > > > > Whereas, One can glean a virtual machine from GoDaddy > > for $30/mo. > > > > However, the GoDaddy virtual server, in our test, does > > not have great performance. Any reports on Amazon Cloud > > performance? > > > > Maybe I am reading the pricing structure wrong? > > I think you are comparing apples and oranges... > > The smallest of the Amazon instances has 1.7GB of RAM > compared to your $30 Godaddy's 256 MB and "the equivalent > CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon > processor" rather than unknown shared CPU. > > You have access to unlimited storage space on Amazon (S3 > on a pay as you use basis) rather than a fixed 10GB > > I don't have any performance figures but each instance > has dedicated CPU, memory and instance storage so it's > more like a GoDaddy Dedicated Server. > > ...etc etc. > > If you plan to run an instance 24/7 you should look at > the Reserved ones. You pay an annual up front fee and > then a lower hourly running cost. Overall they work out > roughly half the price of on-demand instances if you run > them 24/7. > > A small Reserved instance works out at $49 pm ($22 > monthly 24/7 usage + $325 / 12 annual fee) > > The on-demand instances are priced for you start them up > and shut them down as a when you wanrt and only pay for > the time you use. > > > Anyway, it would be interesting to hear more comments > > on this subject. > > I could go on about all the other features and advantages > of AWS, I'm completely sold on the idea, but as others > have pointed out the original idea here was that you > create an AMI so that developers can rent a WebDNA server > by the hour for as long as they need it. Not only would > WebDNA Software Corporation make a few cents per hour on > every server that was launched but it could also expose > WebDNA to a wider audience. > > Ken wouldn't need to buy 10 WebDNA licences he could just > buy one to have on a WebDNA instance 24/7 and instal it > as normal then when he needed extra capacity he could > launch 9 instances of your AMI paying you a couple of > cents per hour till he shuts them down again. > > Paul
Kenneth Grome
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