[colug-432] shell account hosting?

[Neal Dias]

No, only if you terminate the instance is it destroyed. You can
start/stop to your hearts content without losing your instance/data. I
use two instances regularly, one is my wiki and ticketing system, with
associated database, the other is a RHEL instance that I bring up and
down for various testing purposes.

Using different options with AWS, not going to go into that here, you
can definitely ensure you can keep your instance and it's data.

-nd

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Rick Hornsby
<richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
> >From what I gathered they charge by uptime, not CPU cycles.  When you take it down, your instance and everything in it is destroyed.
>
> I could be wrong tho.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 19, 2012, at 23:02, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to leave such an EC2 instance "up"?
>>
>> I am looking for an additional point-of-presence to complement my VPS
>> (I have PMMAN and one other), so the actual demand on such a virtual
>> instance would be low.  But I would not want to have to bring it up
>> manually every time there is the need.  I was under the impression
>> that the Amazon solutions were cheap only if you left them explicitly
>> "down" when not incurring actual load.  If I have misunderstood, I
>> would be DE-LIGHT-ED.  If EC2 and similar critters only charge for CPU
>> cycles burned, that would be way cool.
>>
>> -- R; <><
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net> wrote:
>>> Why not set up an Amazon EC2 instance? The lowest tier is essentially
>>> free for a year, as long as your usage is low.
>>>
>>> On Jan 19, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently in a venue that is blocking outbound traffic on 6667, which is preventing us from using the chatroom for the radio show we're hosting from the location.  I tried getting around it by using a SOCKS5 proxy through my shell account on dream host, but apparently the IRC server blocks inbound connections from dreamhost ("proxy abuse").  The IRC server is hosted by a third party, so I can't make any configuration changes to the server itself.
>>>>
>>>> I've been looking around for the last few minutes for a shell account I could pay for, but all I'm finding is "free" aka "doesn't work", is extremely limited, or is advertising as "great for botnets" type stuff.  Obviously, not what I'm looking for.
>>>>
>>>> Are there any reputable places to find such a thing?  I don't mind paying for it, but the price can't be excessive.
>>>>
>>>> thanks guys
>>>> -rick
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