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Amazon EC2 to support Windows

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    Pawel Krakowiak
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    See here[^]. That's great news!

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      See here[^]. That's great news!

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      leppie
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      Someone didnt read what RMS had to say yesterday! ;P

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        Someone didnt read what RMS had to say yesterday! ;P

        xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
        IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)
        ((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))

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        Pawel Krakowiak
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        leppie wrote:

        Someone didnt read what RMS had to say yesterday!

        I did. I just don't agree with him. :P I was missing Windows support from Amazon, some people try emulating Windows Server on a Fedora image. Speaking of storing and computing stuff in the cloud I wonder whether Stallman knows what web hosting or email are...

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          leppie wrote:

          Someone didnt read what RMS had to say yesterday!

          I did. I just don't agree with him. :P I was missing Windows support from Amazon, some people try emulating Windows Server on a Fedora image. Speaking of storing and computing stuff in the cloud I wonder whether Stallman knows what web hosting or email are...

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          IIRC he only uses text email and browses with lynx. :rolleyes:

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            IIRC he only uses text email and browses with lynx. :rolleyes:

            Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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            Pawel Krakowiak
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            dan neely wrote:

            he only uses text email and browses with lynx

            No way?! I always wondered why his surname is Stall[^]man... :|

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              See here[^]. That's great news!

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              Yeah I just saw that! What are EC2's rates/performance compared to say a shared web host? Would I be able to run a whole web server off of EC2 or is it meant for other things like web services. Either way, this is pretty exciting for us Windozers. :)

              “Time and space can be a bitch.” –Gushie, Quantum Leap {o,o}.oO(   Check out my blog!   ) |)””’)                piHole.org -”-”-

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                Yeah I just saw that! What are EC2's rates/performance compared to say a shared web host? Would I be able to run a whole web server off of EC2 or is it meant for other things like web services. Either way, this is pretty exciting for us Windozers. :)

                “Time and space can be a bitch.” –Gushie, Quantum Leap {o,o}.oO(   Check out my blog!   ) |)””’)                piHole.org -”-”-

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                chaiguy1337 wrote:

                Would I be able to run a whole web server off of EC2

                Yes. Even 2000 web servers if you can afford that. :P You can run as many as you need. Those are virtual machines running on Amazon's infrastructure, I have only used it once to run some Linux in order to move Gmail history between two accounts. I would have to calculate the costs, because it is possible that putting Windows Server on Amazon EC2 may be a lot cheaper than buying a virtual/dedicated server with the 'standard' (not cloud) hosting providers. The main advantage of cloud computing is its scalability - need more RAM? Put a simple request to the web service. Need more computers? Put a simple request to the web service. Done computing, traffic went down and don't need the extra power? Put a simple request to the web service. And so it goes. :)

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                  chaiguy1337 wrote:

                  Would I be able to run a whole web server off of EC2

                  Yes. Even 2000 web servers if you can afford that. :P You can run as many as you need. Those are virtual machines running on Amazon's infrastructure, I have only used it once to run some Linux in order to move Gmail history between two accounts. I would have to calculate the costs, because it is possible that putting Windows Server on Amazon EC2 may be a lot cheaper than buying a virtual/dedicated server with the 'standard' (not cloud) hosting providers. The main advantage of cloud computing is its scalability - need more RAM? Put a simple request to the web service. Need more computers? Put a simple request to the web service. Done computing, traffic went down and don't need the extra power? Put a simple request to the web service. And so it goes. :)

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                  Cool stuff. I especially love the "pay only for what you use" aspect of things.

                  “Time and space can be a bitch.” –Gushie, Quantum Leap {o,o}.oO(   Check out my blog!   ) |)””’)                piHole.org -”-”-

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                    Cool stuff. I especially love the "pay only for what you use" aspect of things.

                    “Time and space can be a bitch.” –Gushie, Quantum Leap {o,o}.oO(   Check out my blog!   ) |)””’)                piHole.org -”-”-

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                    I received a billing statement from Amazon yesterday. I uploaded about 2GB of files into my S3 bucket, used an EC2 Linux machine for an hour and made tens of thousands of requests... It costed me $1.64 for the whole September... Including taxes. :-D

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                      I received a billing statement from Amazon yesterday. I uploaded about 2GB of files into my S3 bucket, used an EC2 Linux machine for an hour and made tens of thousands of requests... It costed me $1.64 for the whole September... Including taxes. :-D

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                      :cool:

                      “Time and space can be a bitch.” –Gushie, Quantum Leap {o,o}.oO(   Check out my blog!   ) |)””’)                piHole.org -”-”-

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