On 02/01/18 09:47, Brian May via luv-main wrote:
Andrew McGlashan via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> writes:
As I understand it, if you want to host an AWS EC2 server, you need to pay a "region" price for access to a region; it is my belief that it costs roughly $1500 per month, not sure if that is already in AUD or not.
Where did you get this information from? I am not familiar with this fee. Nor can I find anything about it:
Okay, the problem pricing may be related to "Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances" ... that seems the closest (from what I can tell), to having your own physical server and being able to do with it what you like. Perhaps this product is way overkill. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/dedicated-instances/ <quote> Pricing Pay only for what you use with no long-term commitments. Dedicated Instance pricing has two components: (1) an hourly per instance usage fee and (2) a dedicated per region fee (note that you pay this once per hour regardless of how many Dedicated Instances you're running). Dedicated Per Region Fee $2 per hour - An additional fee is charged once per hour in which at least one Dedicated Instance of any type is running in a region. </quote> This region fee, $2 per hour, approx. 750 hours per month, so about $1,500. I also find that all (or too many, if not all) AWS pages are super resource hungry and cause performance issues (that is, their website pages detailing the products on offer). This may be due to me using Palemoon -- which is a fork of Firefox; I actually use a combination of browsers, Firefox [due to how they have changed since version 57 in particular], is used much less by myself now. -- Kind Regards AndrewM