[Opensim-users] Amazon EC2 hosting for OpenSim?

[Ken Grunke]

On 11/26/2013 08:41 PM, EGBainbridge/Apollo Manga wrote:
> Ken Grunke wrote
>> My preference is
>> Ubuntu, but I've not noticed any price differences over other Linux
>> OS's.
> Here are some examples of costs by operating system:
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> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11: $0.03 to $0.30/hr incl EC2 charges + other
> AWS usage fees
> Amazon Linux AMI (64-bit): $0.02 to $3.82/hr incl EC2 charges + other AWS
> usage fees
> Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Base: $0.02 to $0.285/hr incl EC2 charges +
> other AWS usage fees
> Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS: $0.00/hr for software + AWS usage fees
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Yes, there are two Enterprise versions of Linux (Suse & Redhat) that are 
higher priced, and of course Windows, but aside from those, all AWS fees 
are based on options of all the instance types regarding CPU, memory, 
and network speed.
You can even create your own image with your choice of OS - there are a 
few tutorials for doing that scattered around the internet.

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> Ken Grunke wrote
>> One little "gotchya" for me was the server address - you can use
>> the public DNS address...
> Are you saying that we can't use the domain name when running OpenSim on
> Amazon EC2?  If so, that's a huge gotcha for me.

Oh no! Sorry, I was referring only to the Amazon public DNS address, not 
to assigning your own domain to your server.

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