morgan spice
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Hey, just wondering if anyone has any experience with Amazon EC2 & S3. Maily wondering is it difficult to set up and if you find them reliable?
cheers.
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Amazon EC2 & S3
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cloudberryman
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Amazon S3
If you are on Windows you can also try CloudBerry Explorer freeware to manage your S3 account. I probably can't post the link and I will not but you can google for CloudBerry Explorer - it is no brainer to use Amazon S3 with it. the website also has quite a few useful links to Amazon S3 tutorials.
If you are on Windows you can also try CloudBerry Explorer freeware to manage your S3 account. I probably can't post the link and I will not but you can google for CloudBerry Explorer - it is no brainer to use Amazon S3 with it. the website also has quite a few useful links to Amazon S3 tutorials.
morgan spice
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cool thanks a lot.
and what about ec2... from what i read online you need to be a server/hosting guru to do it. am i right?
and what about ec2... from what i read online you need to be a server/hosting guru to do it. am i right?
cloudberryman
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Amazon EC2
Well, EC2 is kind of expensive to do simple web hosting starting at $75/month. It is good if you need to lunch MANY machines to do some kind of parallel computation and then shut it down once the computation is complete. The real advantage of EC2 is that they charge per hour and you can run it for only as long as you need it. For web hosting you need to run it 24x7 and this is too expensive.
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Andy
Well, EC2 is kind of expensive to do simple web hosting starting at $75/month. It is good if you need to lunch MANY machines to do some kind of parallel computation and then shut it down once the computation is complete. The real advantage of EC2 is that they charge per hour and you can run it for only as long as you need it. For web hosting you need to run it 24x7 and this is too expensive.
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Andy
I haven't set up EC2, but I found S3 pretty straight forward to get setup and start using. The docs on the site are good, and they give code samples to get you going.
There's also a Firefox add-on (can't think of the name of it, but I'm sure you'll get it in the add-ons library) that gives you access to your S3 account.
There's also a Firefox add-on (can't think of the name of it, but I'm sure you'll get it in the add-ons library) that gives you access to your S3 account.
hosting365
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ec2 typically works out more expensive that 'traditional' paid monthly hosting solutions (be they virtual or dedicated)
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