<font face="garamond,serif">I was thinking of the cost of putting up a blog. If I understand Pat correctly we require more support than a blog would and this justifies our greater expense?<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Pat Barron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pat@lectroid.com" target="_blank">pat@lectroid.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 8/22/2012 5:48 PM, Michael Loomis
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<blockquote type="cite"><font face="garamond,serif">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?<br>
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Do you have any particular services in mind?<br>
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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.<br>
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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....<br>
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Google Compute Engine is very new, and I haven't really looked at it
yet. Might be something to look at.<br>
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Are there any other particular services you're familiar with?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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--Pat.<br>
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