I am really, really impressed with Amazon EC2/S3/Queue/SimpleDB. There have been a few issues of downtime lately, but basically I’ve written a web application using Perl/Catalyst/MySQL/Ubuntu (and sometimes Solaris) that needs to sale to 100K hits an hour or so, but will remain idle most of the time. In other words it needs [...]
I wanted to pull up a new Ubuntu server. Normally that takes a few hours. I have to download a new CD image, install manually on a machine.
Not today. Today I typed:
ec2-run-instances ami-179e7a7e -k gsg-keypair
BAM. Ubuntu 8.04 image is up, and mine, and $0.10 an hour.
I feel like I just hit the crack pipe this [...]
I recently installed Ubuntu on my Inspiron 1420 with a 1.8gHz C2D and 2gB DDR2.
I must say, I am loving it. I dont think I will boot into my Vista partition again except to use windows specific software.
Not only is Ubuntu more aesthetically pleasing because I didnt feel like paying out the ass [...]
