On 12/13/2011 09:34 PM, techno curmudgeon wrote:
> Well, it looks like for the next 3 weeks or so I'm going to be down in
> the wonderous, glorious, edgy, urbane, and avant garde state of texas.
> Where I'm going, high entertainment is driving into "town" to go to
> the Super Walmart.
>
> Wonderful. Can. Hardly. Wait.
>
> Usually it's off-net down there (historically only access is by modem.
> Which tops out at 21K. On a good sunny day. And no, I'm not
> exaggerating), but maybe it's changed. Heck, if the euros can try to
> find the Higgs Boson in Geneva, Switzerland, then I can try to find a
> 3G signal in bumscrew texas. Right?
>
> Anyway, if I can tether my android there, it dawns on me this would be
> a good time to familiarize myself with so-called cloud computing (I've
> been reading up on opennebula and openstack. These look like Really
> Cool Toys, which has gotten me interested in the more general topic).
>
> So there's AWS, looks like google has something, as well as the usual
> suspects like Rackspace etc.
>
> Has anyone actually used these services? What's a good, cheap one for
> just playing around purposes? I'm looking for short term (no more
> than a month) and inexpensive. I'll probably be just playing and
> learning what the capabilities of the technology are, so cheap is
> good. Or if anyone has a strong opinion on a particular service one
> way or another, I'd be interested in hearing it.
>
> Of course, it's all dependent on whether I can get a good enough
> signal to get to the net while I'm down there. If not, then oh well.
>
> Thanks!
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AWS offers a free minimal instance for one year. The abstraction between
the OS and the storage on AWS is a hard one to deal with, smart in it's
own way, but still difficult to come to gripes with. I like rackspace
personally but you will have to pay, the sum for a tiny instance is
pretty paltry though $.0015 per hour so you probably won't come out very
poor from the whole experience. Rackspace provides a much more "normal"
experience compared to AWS.
-Erinn
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