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.

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   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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