Amazon EC2 hosting
Looks like cloud computing is the next big thing, anyone using the EC2 for web application development?
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Looks like cloud computing is the next big thing, anyone using the EC2 for web application development?
I've done some client work on an app hosted on EC2 and using S3 and EBS for storage and persistence - it's pretty neat. Btw, Amazon have just announced a Free Usage Tier program (http://aws.amazon.com/free/) that allows new users to run an free EC2 micro instance for 1 year (though a credit card is required at sign up - I guess they'd need to bill you should you exceed the quotas on the free program). Give it try... ~gms
What about Google appengine? Regards, Erastus Gichuhi +254733725373 @gisho Nairobi Kenya On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Glenn Sequeira <gsequeira@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Looks like cloud computing is the next big thing, anyone using the EC2 for web application development?
I've done some client work on an app hosted on EC2 and using S3 and EBS for storage and persistence - it's pretty neat.
Btw, Amazon have just announced a Free Usage Tier program (http://aws.amazon.com/free/) that allows new users to run an free EC2 micro instance for 1 year (though a credit card is required at sign up - I guess they'd need to bill you should you exceed the quotas on the free program). Give it try...
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Cool! The costing bit was abit fuzzy.... cost per instances/running time. If your client's ROI is justified then the app must be 'b$g'. :-) On 11/4/10, Glenn Sequeira <gsequeira@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Looks like cloud computing is the next big thing, anyone using the EC2 for web application development?
I've done some client work on an app hosted on EC2 and using S3 and EBS for storage and persistence - it's pretty neat.
Btw, Amazon have just announced a Free Usage Tier program (http://aws.amazon.com/free/) that allows new users to run an free EC2 micro instance for 1 year (though a credit card is required at sign up - I guess they'd need to bill you should you exceed the quotas on the free program). Give it try...
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I know the google appengine works ok. for simple select and sort queries, but isn't so good with complex queries http://www.kelvinwong.ca/2008/05/27/pricing-google-app-engine-vs-amazon-ec2/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9917409-80.html
I'd recommend EC2. It's a lot more flexible in that you have the flexibility of selecting the kind of environment you want your application to run on. The biggest downside with app engine is that you need to use the Google Data store, which means learning their GQL code. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com>wrote:
I know the google appengine works ok. for simple select and sort queries, but isn't so good with complex queries
http://www.kelvinwong.ca/2008/05/27/pricing-google-app-engine-vs-amazon-ec2/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9917409-80.html _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
They're taking Python and wrapping it round our necks :-) On 11/5/10, Martin Kihuha <mkihuha@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd recommend EC2. It's a lot more flexible in that you have the flexibility of selecting the kind of environment you want your application to run on.
The biggest downside with app engine is that you need to use the Google Data store, which means learning their GQL code.
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com>wrote:
I know the google appengine works ok. for simple select and sort queries, but isn't so good with complex queries
http://www.kelvinwong.ca/2008/05/27/pricing-google-app-engine-vs-amazon-ec2/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9917409-80.html _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
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