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I have been "messing about" with the free tier that Amazon Web
Services offers, by using an instance of Ubuntu 11.10 to run OpenSim
on my EC2 with *cough* 613 mb of RAM and 15 GB allotment of
bandwidth going out per month. Certainly nothing to write home
about, but a good learning experience for me.<br>
<br>
I have become aware that running OpenSim solely within an EC2 Linux
or Windows instance is not taking advantage of all that AWS has to
offer, but haven't much of a clue what, of the various services in
regards to OS to use, or how. <br>
<br>
I am considering upgrading to a paid service on AWS *if* it seems
worthwhile over the long term, or using a standard VPS if not. In my
long-term sights is the possibility of a small-scale business
hosting OpenSim after gaining some experience.<br>
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I would be happy to hear from anyone using AWS for OpenSim and their
thoughts on how to best take advantage of it to the fullest.<br>
My questions would be:<br>
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To what uses could an Elastic Load Balancer, Elastic Block Storage,
or <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3" style="color: rgb(153, 102,
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239); display: inline !important; float: none; "><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>standard storage features
be put? <br>
</span>Could I use a MySQL database outside of the instance, for
example?<br>
<br>
Ken Grunke aka Key Gruin @ OSGrid<br>
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