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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> If you want to use it just for yourself, sure. If you want it to provide
> a service to other people... well, no way to know when those service
> requests will arrive, eh?
Sure. Then it's doing something.
>> If you want to serve static web pages, use S3, not EC2.
>
> S3 only stores data. There's no way of accessing it from the outside
> world again. (As far as I can tell.)
It serves any file there via HTTP, with a URL like
http://s3.amazon.com/mybucket/myfile.zip
or some such.
> I'd actually like to run custom CGI. But paying 72$/month for a server
> that gets maybe 4 hits per month seems... excessive.
There is that. What CGI is this?
> Three hours does not concern me. I have an animation running that's
> likely to take about a week to render. But it'll take way longer if I
> can only have the machine turned on for a few hours a day. (Especially
> since POV-Ray takes about 30 minutes JUST TO FIGURE OUT WHERE IT LEFT
> OFF!!)
That's a pretty good use of it.
> Looks like you'd need to script it to run POV-Ray, run VirtualDub,
> somehow copy the data to S3, and then automatically shut down ASAP
> before you go bankrupt!
Not sure what the virtualdub part involves, but you can log in remotely, you
know. Posting the stuff up to S3 isn't hard either. I can give you a script
that pushes a directory up to S3 if you want, too.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
There aren't any trees on Mars.
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