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Anyone Familiar With the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)?

by JDSalinger
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I am looking to find a good hosting solution for my website and was curious what people know about this service and whether it works better with a video hosting S3 account than say another hosting service like Hostgator?

*This was mentioned in another post but I want to get some broader opinions without it getting cluttered in the other thread.*
#amazon #cloud #compute #ec2 #elastic #familiar
  • Profile picture of the author stevenh512
    EC2 is nice, but it can get expensive and it's completely unnecessary for most sites (especially static or Wordpress sites). It also won't have any impact on your use of S3 for hosting video files or any other static assets, many people use S3 (and even CloudFront) along with their own hosting without ever using EC2.

    EC2 is like a VPS that bills by the hour instead of monthly. It's easier to scale than a typical VPS would be, but it also doesn't come with cPanel or anything like that, so using it could require some basic Linux server admin and software installation skills. Of course, there are some much simpler cloud hosting services (like Heroku) built on top of EC2 but unless you're dealing with something like Ruby on Rails or Node.js that probably isn't what you're looking for.
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    • Profile picture of the author JDSalinger
      Originally Posted by stevenh512 View Post

      EC2 is nice, but it can get expensive and it's completely unnecessary for most sites (especially static or Wordpress sites). It also won't have any impact on your use of S3 for hosting video files or any other static assets, many people use S3 (and even CloudFront) along with their own hosting without ever using EC2.

      EC2 is like a VPS that bills by the hour instead of monthly. It's easier to scale than a typical VPS would be, but it also doesn't come with cPanel or anything like that, so using it could require some basic Linux server admin and software installation skills. Of course, there are some much simpler cloud hosting services (like Heroku) built on top of EC2 but unless you're dealing with something like Ruby on Rails or Node.js that probably isn't what you're looking for.
      Ok, that is exactly what I needed. Based on that, it sounds like a regular hosting account would be the better choice for most people.
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  • Profile picture of the author Simeon Tuitt
    I've just migrated my wordpress blog to EC2 alone with running my EVP video files, I did it for the scalability it offers, a normal web host is great at the start but if your blog gets popular many web hosts with shared servers will shut your site down to protect the hosting of their other clients. If your sites new with not much traffic, a normal shared server and S3 work fine, if you plan on scale later on down the line, then cloud hosting is something to look at.
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