Amazon EC2

[happz]

Can someone confirm whether or not it is possible to run an ISPConfig 3 Server using Amazon EC2?

Thx,
Happz

[gabrielpasv]

Yes it is.

Yesterday I just created on ubuntu server with Elastic IP and I installed ISPConfig 3 on that.

I will have to cancel that because I need to move files from cpanel to ISPconfig but I didn't find any tutorial on how to do that.

But it is possible

[happz]

Nice! Now forgive me for not being coursed in Amazon but I'm about to move and take down my ispconfig3 Debian server and I would like to bring up a remote server I run out of my house so I can continue hosting.

My question is- (and this is for anyone)- Will I be charged for just running the server even if there isn't any users hitting the site?

I guess I'm confused on how they make money off of this. Maybe just by running a website and pinging it or uploading pictures or video they charge for data...just not sure...thx

Happz

[falko]

I think you will have to pay for storage as well, even if there's no traffic.

[talkingnews]

Originally Posted by falko

I think you will have to pay for storage as well, even if there's no traffic.

The storage part is pretty cheap, it's more the server that will cost.
You can work that out here: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

But... good news! You can run a micro instance, 24 hours a day, for a year, for free:
http://aws.amazon.com/free/

AWS Free Usage Tier (Per Month):
750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month*
750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer plus 15 GB data processing*
10 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage, plus 1 million I/Os and 1 GB of snapshot storage*
5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests*
15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services*
25 Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage**
100,000 Requests of Amazon Simple Queue Service**
100,000 Requests, 100,000 HTTP notifications and 1,000 email notifications for Amazon Simple Notification Service**
10 Amazon Cloudwatch metrics, 10 alarms, and 1,000,000 API requests**

I've just finished my year of that, and it did very well for me.