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Is Amazon the cheapest cloud provider?
On AWS, bandwidth costs as little as $0.08 per GB and storage costs as little as $0.055 per GB. Are there any providers that charge less? These numbers end up being very costly for a web site that ...
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Students publishing their websites to Amazon S3
I want students to publish their static websites to Amazon S3. But I can't have them all create AWS accounts because it requires their credit cards even for the free usage tier. I don't mind letting ...
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What is Amazon Aws?
What is Amazon Aws? Is it hosting service provided by Amazon? Is Twitpic hosted by AmazonAws? How much it cost (I couldnt find on their site)
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Amazon s3 webmaster privacy
If I am hosting a site on Amazon Web Services, how easy is it for someone to work out that I'm behind it, for example if it's a controversial campaign issue. WHOIS privacy with the domain registrar ...
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Amazon RDS And EC2 On Two Different Region. How Much performance Loss?
if for an application, amazon ec2 instance and amazon RDS instance be on two different Avalability Zone/Region, how much performance degradation are expected?
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Price of Amazon CloudFront vs dedicated server?
I am trying to estimate my monthly bill for Amazon CloudFront.
Let's say I need 1'000 GB/month transfer. The price calculator give me a bill of $120.
That's totally overpriced. If I buy a dedicated ...
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Can't I pause my server On Rackspace as Like AWS?
I am using AWS and I can create instance and keep it stopped if I don't need it. It beocmes handy as I can test/switch back/forth to several differently configured instances and don't loos any of ...
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Wordpress, Joomla, on amazon S3 only? or do I need EC2 instance
for services like wordpress and joomla, I remember kind of just dropping project files on an FTP when I was doing static websites.
Now Amazon S3 buckets reminds me of that, and it can be used for ...
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backup of AWS s3
We had been backing up all of our databases and image files to S3. Around 2TBs of data. But now we are migrating our hosting to amazon and I think we need another backup now, not on amazon. Is this ...
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How do I set up an `A record`?
I have Apache installed on an EC2 instance (with an Elastic IP). I successfully used NameCheap's DNS tool to configure routing of www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com traffic.
If I have a web ...
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Cloudflare cache image downlaods
Is there a way to have cloudflare cache image downloads, ( content type application/octet-stream, Content-Disposition attachment )? Images are hosted on AWS S3.
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How to keep a local copy of all images and still serve images from Amazon S3?
I'm using amazon s3 to host assets for my site (mainly images). At the moment when a user uploads an image via a form, the php script uploads the image directly to my bucket on s3.
I would like to ...
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Scaling a cloud-based ecommerce site
I'm researching cloud services to host an e-commerce site. And I'm trying to understand some basics on how they are able to scale things.
From what I can gather from AWS, Rackspace, etc ...
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Azure “Web Sites” equivalent on AWS
I've been looking at Azure's "Web Sites" feature. I can host up to 100 websites on load balanced VMs in a PaaS manner. This suits my requirements fairly precisely. Lots of .Net sites, none of which ...
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Change Region For An Amazon RDS Instance
I am using AWS free tier. While launching EC2 instance and RDS instance, I didn't choose any specific region. So, randomly I was assigned two different region for ec2 and rds. Later, after launching ...
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Does Google treat AWS IP addresses as related?
We are hosting several websites on one of our servers, and wondering if because they are on the same subnet that they have been somehow penalized.
We are not inter-linking between websites.
However ...
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which service to use among Amazon's free tier for Java app [closed]
this is the first time I am going to host a java app, Amazon offers a free tier which provides free usage for one year, and I am going to use it. But there are so many services (S3, EC2, etc etc), I ...
