It is not running on VMWare, it is its own animal. However, you can run any flavor of Linux that you care to on EC2. My first question to you is, if the instance went down or was unstable, what would be the impact? If you are running MySQL within EC2, you need to have backups to Amazon S3. That way, if you lose the instance, the backup data is sitting in S3. Perry Hoekstra John Gateley wrote: > Hi Y'all, > > I've been running a home server (DNS, e-mail, web server, database) > for several years. I think it is time to move offsite. Anyone tried > EC2 for this? It looks like EC2 is a thin layer on top of VMware so > I could run what I needed. > > I can use godaddy for DNS, so I don't need that anymore. > > I use qmail for mail, and I'd like to keep that, I have a somewhat > complex setup. > > I'm running apache2 and a few wikis hitting MySQL. > > Suggestions? > > j > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >