tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post9001692374866386866..comments2024-02-27T03:14:00.412-06:00Comments on From the Canyon Edge: What's better than Cloud 9? Cloud 10!Dustin Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12464590128908584782noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-26850245556267663642010-10-14T11:10:36.107-05:002010-10-14T11:10:36.107-05:00Dustin,
Are you able to look at a running total? ...Dustin,<br />Are you able to look at a running total? If a laypress story does come out it would be interesting to see if you can identify the resulting bump in the running trend.<br /><br />-jefJef Spaletahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11439754449677675460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-15792432133946886752010-10-13T19:37:45.681-05:002010-10-13T19:37:45.681-05:00Jef,
Several thousand instances have run since th...Jef,<br /><br />Several thousand instances have run since the Ubuntu 10.10 release (on 10/10/10 at 10:10 UTC), less than 4 days ago. That's approximately one instance launched every 1-2 minutes this week. While those numbers aren't earth-shattering, I'm quite proud of them, particularly considering we haven't really seen any prominent news sources advertising the offer yet. I think it's been largely word-of-mouth at this point.<br /><br />Amazon bills in 1-hour increments, so we paid for a full hour of your usage, whether you ran for 59 seconds, or 59 minutes. Thank you for your concern, though.<br /><br />This program is launching Amazon's m1.small instance size. You can see at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ that this costs Canonical about $0.085/hour, which is far less than a printed CD.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />:-DustinDustin Kirklandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12464590128908584782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-57668582688808529492010-10-13T11:48:17.479-05:002010-10-13T11:48:17.479-05:00Dustin,
it would be great if you could convince y...Dustin,<br /><br />it would be great if you could convince your employer to release some stats on the running total number of 1 hour instances created under this program. Or if not a running total perhaps a total at the 1 month mark.<br /><br />I went through the hoops and started one up to try it out and then shut it down it down with shutdown -h in under a minute because my conscience wouldn't let me spend the full hours worth of Canonical's money since I had no intention of using it for anything. I just wanted to try the initiation process..which is very well done.<br /><br />But lets say someone does what I did and terminates it early and wants to restart it to get the rest of the 1 hour demo. How would they go about restarting it once terminated?<br /><br />-jefJef Spaletahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11439754449677675460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-76473278928927876252010-10-12T22:18:51.693-05:002010-10-12T22:18:51.693-05:00I'm not completely sure on my bandwidth usage....I'm not completely sure on my bandwidth usage. I installed a basic LAMP stack, email server stack, emacs, and a few other bits and then played around for an hour.Steven D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-46444922102679069672010-10-11T18:38:59.444-05:002010-10-11T18:38:59.444-05:00Right, the ec2-cost notifier also takes into accou...Right, the ec2-cost notifier also takes into account network activity. How much bandwidth did you use? :-)<br /><br />:-DustinDustin Kirklandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12464590128908584782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-33629762575126359682010-10-11T16:07:49.797-05:002010-10-11T16:07:49.797-05:00Interestingly, when I tried this yesterday, it cos...Interestingly, when I tried this yesterday, it cost just over a dime--at least according to byobu's ec2-cost status notifier. :-)Steven D.noreply@blogger.com