I don't know about Mosso's current offerings, but as of a year or two ago they had a shared hosting option for $100/mo that was similar to MediaTemple's, but I recall they were experimenting with billing and they were charging not only for bandwidth, but the actual number of web requests (pages, images, javascript, css, etc). Insane if you ask me. -Chris Robert Brown wrote: > 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 > <mailto:sulrich at botwerks.org>> wrote: > > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Elvedin Trnjanin <trnja001 at umn.edu > <mailto: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 > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > -- > steve ulrich (sulrich at botwerks.*) > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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