On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 12:16 PM Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 11:28 AM lina <lina.lastn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does anybody know what is the cost range to build the website for a lab? >> including all, >> basically layout is >> research | people | publication >> > > Consider using cloud services for a smaller more-static website. If "lab" > means, say, US government-funded > lab, depending on the agency they have internal clouds. But AWS or > Google cloud could have you a small webserver > for US$50 per month or less, with global connectivity. You can usually pay > for network activity incrementally. > You can choose Debian-based VMs if you want but more and more cloud > services are true software-as-a-service, > not necessarily discrete VMs that you choose a linux distribution for, > size for RAM and virtual disk, etc. > If you choose AWS EC2 linux VMs, they have several distros available > pre-built, including their own, which is lean and fast. > I should have added: For incremental cost, you can do things in the cloud that are basically impossible on your own. For example, you can have AWS cloud cache your web-content at the edge of their networks, without really doing any work on your servers. Point-and-click to reduce web client roundtrip time by 75%, say. You have essentially infinite backup space for pennies. You can script the creation of your web server, and a hot-backup web server, their backup storage, including installation of every piece of software, all system and network config: and then duplicate it identically in a different country with another point-and-click, done in 15 minutes. > > >> Thanks for your help, >> >
