I use Rackspace Cloud Servers. They are less expensive than EC2 and have persistent storage locally (they are just xen slices).<br><br>I really do like EC2 - the only reason I don't currently use them is I only run a single server and liked the simple management of the RCS. Automated backups, etc.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Matthew Nuzum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:30 PM, jrnosee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrnosee@gmail.com" target="_blank">jrnosee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Rapidxen looks pretty appealing too, but for the $7.49 hosting @ 5GB disk space, is that for the OS & site?! I'd have to look @ my VM config for my dev sites, but I'm pretty sure I give more HD space than that. What would you configure for an OS that would still give you enough space to host a site?<div>
<div></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Yeah, with Xen (assuming the xen in rapidxen means they use xen) the 128MB of RAM would be the OS plus applications. That's enough to run a shell account, an IRC bot, a light mail or DNS server, a mostly static (minimal php) website or two. Fortunately they do allow swap so you could have some fun with that. I'd probably limit Apache to a max children of 10 or so.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You can get a micro EC2 instance with 600MB of RAM for just slightly more than that. A reserved instance is $54 one-year fee + $0.007/hour = $115.32 /year or $9.61/mo + $1/mo for a 10GB disk. If you're a new customer it's free for one year.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Tying this back into the original question, the decision between choosing a VPS or a shared hosting provider really is, do you want to manage a server or not?</div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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