From "Russell Coker" <russell@coker.com.au>

> http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
>
> A "small" EC2 instance costs 6 cents per hour or $43.80 per average month.
> Plus costs for bandwidth and storage.  A "micro" instance costs 2 cents per
> hour or $14.60 per average month.

..
> EC2 is really good for dynamically scalable systems and for situations where
> you need bulk computing off-peak (as demonstrated in a LUV talk some
> time ago).
> It's not particularly good for running a single server.

As said, it is an announcement server which is "fed" by us maybe once a month.

The idea was to let it run only when needed.

I wasn't aware of SMTP traffic restrictions. I actually looked out for
it but could not find it mentioned anywhere.

Besides, for me it was a trial to figure out how to deal with Amazon EC2.

Well, actually, fears confirmed: you never know exactly what you get,
you cannot rely on it and you don't get what you want;-)

Thanks for the other ideas as Linode or Hetzner. I have a think about it.

Regards
Peter

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