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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by nanoGeek on Monday March 16, 2015 @01:47PM (#9213003)
Great point. Also, on AWS if you use Amazon Linux you are even more 'locked-in'. Maybe that's the reason many hosting companies give you discounts at the beginning.
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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by lclarkmichalek on Monday March 16, 2015 @02:03PM (#9213114)
Pretty sure Amazon Linux is just their particular flavor of RHEL, right?
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Re:How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware by zymhan on Monday March 16, 2015 @02:18PM (#9213217)
Correct. It doesn't have the exact same default configuration as, say, CentOS, but it's not much different otherwise.
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