Comparing apples to apples is different. Mostly I am playing with EC2 and this is not a definitive decision.
It is true that normal shared hosting is much cheaper but I want access to the apache config file. So I compared pricing of EC2 with some VPS hosting and I found it similar. I need a single instance. As far as I understand Amazon will charge a fixed amount for the server (0.085/hour * 24hours/month * 30months) + somthing for EBS and something for traffic. I cannot really quantify those numbers so I ma hoping this experiment will help me understand. The current web2py.com is hosted on a virtual machine running on one core of a 8 cores power mac in my office. It is a university so we have very high speed networks. Everybody seems to complain that the amazon network is slow. Massimo On Feb 5, 2:37 pm, Pystar <aitoehi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Massimo, > I am really interested in the costs implications of hosting the web2py > website on EC2, since you will be billed by computing hours. Wouldn't > a host like Slicehost or Linode have made most sense economically? or > is there a hidden advantage that you have discovered? Also, I am > browsing the site from Lagos, Nigeria and found out that the web2py > website on EC2 tends to load rather slower than the one on the old > host, why is that? > Thanks Pystar. > > On Feb 5, 7:46 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > I am considering moving web2py hosting to EC2. > > > I have set it up here: > > >http://ec2-75-101-229-191.compute-1.amazonaws.com/http://ec2-75-101-2... > > > Can you please try before I change the DNS? > > > I am also writing instructions on how to post on EC2. Will be done > > soon. > > > Massimo > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
