[Opensim-users] Amazon EC2 hosting for OpenSim?

[Justin Clark-Casey]

When I was working with an organization using EC2,there was a bizarre occasional performance glitch where CPU would jump 
to 100% and all other processes would be locked out.

I believe this was an OpenSimulator bug which has since been fixed, though it was curious this was never seen in any 
other context.

Regarding instances, dual core was the absolute minimum.  I can't remember what these instances were composed of 
exactly, but they seemed to run OpenSimulator reasonably well.

I would strongly advise you avoid single core instances, OpenSimulator has traditionally performed very poorly with 
these.  Things might be different with 0.7.6 but I suspect not enough to make it a feasible option for anything other 
than a lone avatar with little content or activity.

As always, more cores is better.  But if you're running continuously you may be better off with a leased server - it 
will work out much cheaper.

On 26/11/13 20:58, EGBainbridge/Apollo Manga wrote:
> I'm wondering what experiences people here have had with hosting OpenSim on
> Amazon EC2, how it's worked out for you, and which EC2 OS's you recommend?
>
> My two first choices for an OS are SUSE (because I know OpenSUSE best from
> running an OpenSUSE OpenSim server at home) and Ubuntu because it's the
> cheapest on EC2 and because my impression is that OpenSim doesn't have any
> problems with it.
>
> I'm considering EC2 for two different OpenSim hosting situations.  One is a
> company for whom I'm developing a grid and the other is for myself, to
> expand the OpenSim grid I'm hosting on my home server.
>
>
>
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