[mapguide-users] Re: Mapguide in cloud ...(Amazon EC2)

[Haris Kurtagic]

I have been running MG and GeoREST on Amazon EC2 ( Windows ).

I am new to Amazon EC2 but it worked all well for me ( so far ). Right
now I am putting up 400GB of rasters :).

Haris

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Zac Spitzer <zac.spitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> i haven't myself, but I've used AWS EC2 a fair bit
>
> Trevor's new 2.2 binaries for linux should make this pretty easy.
>
> Just remember, EC2 ain't exactly pumping powerful machines
>
> I'd try using linode instead, they offer quad core zen instances
> as default and they start our very cheap and there I/O performance
> is much better than EC2
>
> RAM     512MB   768MB   1024MB  1536MB  2048MB  4096MB
> Storage         16GB    24GB    32GB    48GB    64GB    128GB
> Transfer        200GB   300GB   400GB   600GB   800GB   1600GB
> Price   $19.95  $29.95  $39.95  $59.95  $79.95  $159.95
>
> http://www.linode.com/?r=0c3fc1f1868930edc1dcbd3cff855419a3ddc313
> (disclaimer, that's my referral link)
>
> and linode has a very nice dashboard for perf monitoring your
> instances, something
> EC2 really lacks
>
> the free ec2 instances are not really suitable for IMHO for mapguide,
> to small, think of it like this, whats your hourly rate? no point
> saving a few $$ on
> a solution which won't work which takes hours to setup..
>
> z
>
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Steve G <steve.golden at morganhill.ca.gov> wrote:
>>
>> This thread's origin is from May 2010...just wondering if anyone has
>> attempted and successfully got a mapguide server going on AWS.  I noticed
>> that AWS is now offering a free usage tier for a one year period from
>> sign-up:
>>
>> http://aws.amazon.com/free/
>>
>> Has anyone tried using this?  Just wondering before I potentially waste a
>> lot of time.  If you were successful can you please describe your
>> configuration/installation process and any snags you ran into along the way.
>>
>> Thanks!
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