[colug-432] shell account hosting?

[Neal Dias]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Judd Montgomery <judd at jpilot.org> wrote:
> On 01/20/2012 12:00 AM, Rick Hornsby 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.
>>

>
> With either of these types you will get a different IP address on restart.
>

Associate an Elastic IP to a particular instance and avoid this issue.
I run my wiki with an EBS root so my instance and it's data are
persistent. I do occasional snapshots to S3. I've associated an
Elastic IP to that instance with DynDNS pointed to it. Been running
this way for months.

Rick, We're throwing lots of disjointed information at you, some of it
incomplete, check out the offerings at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

-nd