Does anyone have experience with Mosso, which seems to be a competitor to
EC2?

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:17 AM, steve ulrich <sulrich at botwerks.org> wrote:

> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Elvedin Trnjanin <trnja001 at umn.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Perry Hoekstra wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> > Technically, the hypervisor is Xen. It's easiest to run whatever machine
> > images are already available.
> >> My first question to you is, if the instance went down or was unstable,
> >> what would be the impact?
> >>
> >>
> > I assume it would be the same answer as any other machine.
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> > As for suggestions from me, even the smallest instance will cost you at
> > least $70 per month. Add on storage, the amount of IO transactions, plus
> > bandwidth, and you end up with something more expensive than a dedicated
> > server that works about the same but does not perform as well. If you're
> > doing a database in EC2 and you're storing the database files in S3,
> > that's going to be quite slow as the files would be on something that is
> > essentially an NFS server. The only benefit is quality bandwidth and
> > being able to bring up a new instance on demand.
> >
> > If you're looking for other providers to compare, try out Slicehost.
>
> having spent a good chunk of time with EC2 for various projects i'd
> echo these sentiments.  EC2 really shines when you're looking to do
> something which requires incremental addition of compute capacity to
> deal with capacity requirements or you need to split problems up
> across a bunch of hardware for variable and typically short amounts of
> time.
>
> if you're looking for something to host your personal domains, mail,
> etc you'll likely be better off with a virtual private server solution
> from any number of reputable hosting providers.  the pricing for these
> services with a year contract can be had for much lower price points.
> godaddy for example can get you a respectable VPS server for 30-40 /
> month.
>
> a small CPU configuration on amazon's ec2 will run you ~$75 / month as
> noted and some unique hoops to jump through which you won't
> necessarily need to jump through w/a VPS at a commodity hosting
> provider.
>
>
>
> >> 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
> >>>
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