On 2 Jan 2018 5:15 pm, "Brian May via luv-main" <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: Andrew McGlashan via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> writes:

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.

If I am reading that correctly, sounds like you get exclusive access to the hardware. i.e. not a VM. So, probably will cost more. Correct. In AWS 'dedicated instances' are exclusive access to the hardware, typically there most expensive option. Last I looked, the reserved instance stuff was the cheapest. Although was somewhat confusing for me to understand initially, and I had to complain to Amazon when their website stuffed things up.... IIRC, if you have a reserved instance, then the hourly fees get reduced significantly (but are still payable). So the total payable is less. I think there might have been two types of reserved instances, but I have forgotten this stuff already. Reserved instances are the cheapest option. They come in full-upfront and partial-upfront versions and can be bought for 1, 2, or three years. Full-upfront is the most economical where as the name suggests you pay fully upfront for the resources you think you will need. There are some limitations on the elasticity of what you buy and of course if you end up using less than you paid for you lose out. Last time I talked to our account manager you can save up to 48% using the right RIs. Even with the reserved instance, you probably find you will end up paying more then for an alternative provider. At least that is what I found several years ago, when I moved to Hetzner instead.

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.

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