hosting options and Amazon AWS?

[Cary Gordon]

We are AWS Consulting Partners, and run our hosting and dev infrastructures
on AWS.

Our strategy is:

Create an EC2 instance that you think will cover your requirements with one
box. This does not have ot be perfect, as you can change it.

Point an elastic IP address at your instance.

Give it three months and get the best metrics you can on resource usage.

After three to six months. you can either:

Move to (or keep) an instance that will cover 90 percent (or more) or your
peak load, configuring your server to queue peak traffic; or

Move to (or keep) an instance that will cover 90 percent or your peak load,
and set up autoscaling.

At that point you will want to move to a one or preferably three year
reserved instance.

While autoscaling is well-documented, it is not trivial to set up, more for
stratigic issues than technical.

Assuming that you stay with a simpler infrastructure, at least in your
first year, the numbers are simple to figure. For example, a medium
On-Demand instance in Oregon or Virginia runs $0.120 an hour. 730 hours per
month give you $87.60/month. Moving to a three year heavy usage (24/7)
reservation costs $514 (one-time) and brings your hourly to $0.023 an hour
or $16.79/month net / $31.07 gross (amortized reservation cost added).

There are other costs, but those are, for the kind of services you
describe, nearly trivial. Your biggest costs other than EC2, will likely be
storage, and that will largely depend on you you do backups.

Thanks,

Cary


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Park,Go-Woon <GOPARK at nwmissouri.edu>wrote:

>  Anybody experience with Amazon’s AWS?****
>
> We use Linode and had customized applications such as a la carte, knowbot,
> and many others. We haven’t needed to contact for the support, so I don’t
> know how the customer service is, but so far we are happy with it. ****
>
> Lately, I am working on a bento-styled search interface (Summon, ruby on
> rails), and thinking of switching to Amazon AWS. The scalability, speed,
> and traffic AWS offers sounds great. I really want to have the search
> results return within reasonable time frame, and AWS sounds more fit for
> that. The problem is their as-you-go pricing.  I can handle any technical
> difficulties, but I am not sure how to estimate the budget for AWS. Any
> thought?****
>
> Sarah ****
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