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« Reply #1 on Nov 1, 2009, 2:01pm » | |
Price-wise that does not really seem to be an alternative to a cheap server with root access. And anyone who can use EC2 should be able to install RB on any other system as well.
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« Reply #2 on Nov 1, 2009, 8:03pm » | |
A documented way to use EC2 would be good because it would be easily available to anyone. If you document how to do this on some other service provider the experience may not translate to some other service provider.
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« Reply #3 on Nov 2, 2009, 6:07am » | |
Well, yeah... but as the cheapest EC2 service is already about $70 per month it would make more sense to just put together your own system and simply collocate your own system. This will also make sure that you can really create the system the way you want and gives you full control over everything. I for example collocate all my mail and DNS servers that way. I pay 49 bucks per server, 100 mbit connection, plenty of gigs transfer. Even though this might still be considered "expensive", it is still cheaper than EC2 and offers way more flexibility.
And anyone who wants even bios level access, you can get some really nice 1U rack servers on ebay for really cheap, that offer lights out functionality and so even allow access to the server when the operating system does not respond anymore.
You always need to know what is more important for you..... price or possibilities.
If you go for price, you have to go with a shared or cheap dedicated server.
Unless you only want to run your EC2 server a few hours per day.... but then you can rather run your server at home.
The thing I saw from all the posts about installation problems seem to be caused by most users going for budget servers. What means.... linux and hosting restrictions. And most of them never used linux and are probably trying to configure everything through some admin interface like plesk or so.... what of cause will end in problems.
I guess it would make more sense to provide a step by step guide on how to install RB on linux, check and open needed ports.
Anyway, I don't want to discourage anyone to write an EC2 turtorial..... but EC2 just does not seem to be the right choice. Prices are just to high (even though you can cut the price down by paying yearly fixed fees).... and not to forget, that you have to pay for every GB transfered... no free amount included!
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« Reply #4 on Nov 3, 2009, 12:33pm » | |
If there is an affordable VPS service that is easy to set up and use, I'd be very excited to promote that. As for EC2, at least it is well documented and its express purpose is to allow users to host what they like. There's a big community around it too.
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« Reply #5 on Nov 3, 2009, 1:15pm » | |
I googled a bit and found one hoster that offers pretty cheap windows and linux VPS with full root SSH / RDP. At least for windows this seems to be the cheapest right now.... there might be cheaper ones for linux though. Additionally they offer Plesk management. I always avoided using plesk.. for a reason. But as far as I know, it is pretty easy to use and you can do a lot of stuff through this interface. So maybe someone wants to test it out and write a tutorial!?
http://www.vpsland.com/
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« Reply #6 on Nov 11, 2009, 8:53am » | |
I've been considering the VPS offerings at 1&1. They currently have a deal where the first 3 months are free.
http://1and1.com
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