[colug-432] shell account hosting?

[Rick Hornsby]

Thanks Neal.

The EC2 instance was trivial to set up once I understood what was going on.  I obviously misunderstood the documentation I was reading a few weeks ago on the topic.

Unfortunately, it looks like the irc server also blocks EC2…

13:23 <c.ustream.tv> Closing Link: Guest2859[ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com] (User has been permanently banned from Ustream (Abuse proxy))



On Jan 20, 2012, at 11:47 , Neal Dias wrote:

> 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
> 
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