For an announce feature i would farm that out to something like mailchimp or similar. EC2 is distrusted thanks to the fairly frequent spam coming out of it. if your mailing volumes are large enough that a linode (or similar) box running all month is cheaper and your administration costs are low enough take that option On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Petros <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au> wrote:

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

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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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