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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.
>
> Perhaps you're missing my point. I get charged for running the server
> 24/7, when it only gets maybe 3 hits per month. That's really expensive,
> no?
I understand your point. :-)
> Interesting. It appears from the documentation that the contents of a
> bucket cannot be hierachical...
URLs aren't either. Put a slash in the name of the file you store in the bucket.
It's a bit more complicated, really.
> I have a blog, but I'm not very happy with it. I'd like to write my own
> blog engine and run that. (In Haskell, naturally.)
So you're talking about the form that takes comments?
> But would it be cheaper to buy a new Intel Core i7 and run it on that?
> (Once I've bought it, I can use it endlessly for nothing.)
Certainly renting is more expensive in the long run than buying. But that's
why it's the *elastic* compute cloud, you see.
>> Not sure what the virtualdub part involves
> Transforming 6,000 frames into a single AVI so I can download it.
Ah, something you can script, then?
>> but you can log in remotely, you know.
>
> What, and be charged for 7 hours of computer time when the instance has
> finished rendering and is just sitting there waiting for me to tell it
> to transcode the video? :-P
You realize that 7 hours of compute time translates to less than a dollar,
right? Even if you let it go that long without checking, and didn't bother
to set it up to send you an email when it finished?
>> 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.
>
> I guess the fun part is if an instance "fails" during a render.
> Apparently it can do that. No refunds...
I've been running one for a company for something like 2 years. The only
time it "failed" is when they told me a couple months in advance that they'd
be cutting over to a new way of doing IP addressing, and please migrate
anything over to a new machine. I.e., I've never had the machine crash.
I think it's far more CYA - "don't run your database on a machine that might
crash and never make backups then blame us" - than any expectation that any
given machine will fail at any particular time.
--
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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