[wplug-board] Linode cost information

[Pat Barron]

On 8/22/2012 5:48 PM, Michael Loomis wrote:
> I was looking over this--sadly because we had already opted to go with 
> Linode. I am wondering if we need all that we getting for. There are 
> some pay for what you use services available. Perhaps they would save 
> us money in 2013?
>

Do you have any particular services in mind?

Linode is already sort of "pay for what you use", in that we pay for a 
certain amount of storage, bandwidth, etc., on a single server instance 
that runs full-time.  Our server instance has to run full-time because 
it services mailing lists, web server, wiki, etc., so it doesn't really 
fit the typical use cases for "pay for what you use", where you spin up 
additional computing capacity when you need it, pay for it on an hourly 
basis, and release that capacity (and stop paying for it) when you don't 
- we just have our one lonely little server instance that's always 
online, and never have any reason to spin up additional servers.

One other service I've looked at is Amazon EC2.  For the way we use our 
service, the most economical service offering that most closely matches 
our needs would be a "Small" model reserved EC2 instance running Linux, 
and online 100% of the time.  The pricing for that is almost exactly the 
same as what we pay Linode (to within $0.50/month).  Amazon does have a 
"Free Usage Tier" where they give new customers their first year of 
service for free, but I'm not counting that - I personally don't think 
that just getting one year of usage for free (and then having to pay 
pretty much the same cost going forward as we are paying now) is worth 
the pain and disruption of having to set up a new server using a 
different distro (in that EC2 doesn't offer CentOS) and migrate 
Mediawiki/MySQL/etc., over to the new server....

Google Compute Engine is very new, and I haven't really looked at it 
yet.  Might be something to look at.

Are there any other particular services you're familiar with?

--Pat.
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