Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I guess it hadn't really registered that it's possible to make an 
> instance immediately start doing work as soon as it boots up.

Yes. I have an instance that when it boots it looks to see if there's a 
backup of the wiki files in S3, and if so it installs them. Then it starts 
the wiki server. Every 10 minutes or so, if something has changed it copies 
a backup back to S3.  I still have to restart the instance by hand, because 
they don't actually die unless I screw it up, but it's not hard to make a 
rc.local that runs something.

> Interestingly, the documentation for DevPay seems to indicate that I 
> could (for example) create an instance, install POV-Ray, and charge 
> people money to run this instance, and thereby earn money. I bet it 
> wouldn't actually work though.

I am not sure what "work" means here. It apparently has some troubles, but 
not that much. I was thinking of making one to run my distributed job 
computing software (aka OddJob), but I couldn't figure out all the places 
where my S3 password was stored and such, so I didn't keep chasing it.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
   much longer being almost empty than almost full.

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