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LYC: So I'm playing around with Amazon cloud services. Created a "micro linux" box on their free AWS tier. Running uTorrent on it as a test and

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Mar 18 '11, 09:47

seeding the "Ultimate Boot CD". Download speed reached 40Mbps. Now seeding to a couple peers here and there. Seems to work great. Really want to use their virtual private cloud to make a VPN to my servers but I need to have a BGP capable router here and I haven't gotten that far yet

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Wow. -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Mar 18, 09:54 3
- It's neat. I get a free micro-Linux (10GB storage, 15GB traffic/mo) to do basically whatever I want - oblique Mar 18, 09:56 2
  - Can you terminate usage when the cap is achieved or will you be charged overages? -- nm - Mop (210 lbs) Mar 18, 09:57 1
    - You can. Bandwidth and I/O are the two you can exceed. It's designed so that the CPU/memory/storage are basically accounted for - oblique Mar 18, 09:58
interesting. - tRuMaN Mar 18, 09:50 2
- Routing protocol. Instead of just saying "send all your stuff here" like a default gateway, we need to be able to dynamically exchange routes with - oblique Mar 18, 09:53 1
  - aw. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 18, 09:55
I haven't played around with AWS, but I think that sort of service that lets you fire up and shut down servers on demand could be useful for a project -- nm - Beryllium Mar 18, 09:49 1
- Yeah. I'm looking at it for potential disaster recovery options (they have a VM importer for VMware) and maybe even the option - oblique Mar 18, 09:52

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