[Opensim-users] Amazon EC2 hosting for OpenSim?

[Timothy Rogers]

Actually ssm2017 that article was by me on hypergrid business not
maria. She just ran it, but honestly there is not real huge concerns,
i just first suggest rendering a free elastic ip for your cloud
instance it is free so long as you attach it to your server and it
solves the dns issue all together, but be careful if you destroy your
instance you elastic ip doesn't go away automatically and then you get
charged for it. I got dinged by that in the past, it is pretty harsh,
but honestly I have no issues with the cloud but I just don't find it
finacially advice able for always on regions.

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:46 PM, ssm2017 <ssm2017 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maria spoke about this not a long time ago :
> http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2013/11/should-you-host-on-the-amazon-cloud/
>
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> 2013/11/27 Rick Anderson <rianders at docs.rutgers.edu>
>>
>> I use Amazon EC2 exclusively for my servers, and it works fine. I usually
>> run Ubuntu which is pretty easy to work with. Also, I use RDS Mysql database
>> instead of running the DB on individual systems. The only thing that I need
>> to do special was configure email separately. But they have an email service
>> that works fine.
>>
>> -_Rick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Ken Grunke <kenearlg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/26/2013 02:58 PM, 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> I may be mistaken, but I have always been under the impression that
>>> Amazon EC2 instances are virtual servers, basically no different from a VPS
>>> which is commonly available and for a more reasonable long-term fee. A VPS
>>> may be adequate for personal use and testing, but for business use can be
>>> disappointing. Perhaps the Amazon instances are more reliable and definitely
>>> more scaleable in response to varying server demands than your
>>> run-of-the-mill VPS.
>>>
>>> I do make use of Amazon's instances for various kinds of testing,
>>> including Opensim, and find them very easy to use. My preference is Ubuntu,
>>> but I've not noticed any price differences over other Linux OS's.  One
>>> little "gotchya" for me was the server address - you can use the public DNS
>>> address for your ini files (Regions.ini & applicable config-include files)
>>> but are much better off using the Public IP number if you want to avoid
>>> networking and region accessability headaches.
>>>
>>> Ken Grunke aka Key Gruin at Osgrid
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>>   Apollo Manga (Erik Gordon Bainbridge)
>>>>   Writer, instructor, former software engineer
>>>>   Northern California
>>>>   ErikBainbridge.com
>>>>   VirtualMarin.com
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