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____/ Homer on Friday 20 June 2008 08:24 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> JBoss Joins Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2
>
> I'm actually considering buying compute services on EC2. The prices are
> pretty good, and it beats buying a new server. The only problem I have
> is that (AFAICT) once you log out, the instance is reset back to its
> defaults, so you couldn't use it to actually store any results (e.g. use
> as a buildsystem), you'd have to transfer the builds over to another
> host. Worse than that, it'd lose all the mirrored source packages, so
> I'd need to pull them every time I launched a new instance (you pay for
> bandwidth too, as well as compute time).
>
> I suppose I could simply never log out, but (again AFAICT) you pay for
> every second you're logged in, so I'd not really want to be logged in
> any longer than necessary.
>
> I'm still reading through the docs, but it seems there might be a way to
> snapshot the instance to revive later. I certainly hope that's possible.
>
> In fact I think I'll just Email support and ask them directly.
I still have access to a farm of about 200 Fedora PCs over here! :-) It's
valuable for running scientific experiments at night (when nobody else uses
these boxes). SSH (with X forwarding) makes all of them accessible from one PC
and nicely manageable too.
Got to love Free software!
- --
~~ Best of wishes
"The collaborative, massively distributed development process behind the
Internet and Open Source projects is not your enemy. It is your friend, the
source of basic research that you can turn into your next generation of
products."
--Tim O’Reilly
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