Re:Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
by benjiweber on Saturday February 11, 2012 @05:40PM
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AWS is more expensive for long running instances (Although not so much if you reserve them).
However where it (and Rackspace + others) shine is using the API to spin up instances for jobs in scripts, or have your monitoring automatically spin up additional instances to scale up when load increases.
However where it (and Rackspace + others) shine is using the API to spin up instances for jobs in scripts, or have your monitoring automatically spin up additional instances to scale up when load increases.