Hi Tom, You should ping Amazon about this. Regards, Frank On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:48:25 -0400 Tom Allison <tom@tacocat.net> wrote: > I hope there is someone on this list who is currently using a Debian > installation as an AWS AMI. I have some "dumb" questions not all of > which are applicable to Debian: > > First, is billing based on $0.10 per uptime hour or $2.40 a day or is > this some CPU time basis (much less than 86400 per day) > > If I pull an AMI from the AWS repository, there appears to be a nice > Etch, is it possible to update/modify the running instance and store > that back as the AMI for the next time I want to use it? > > how do I do that stuff? is it all possible via web pages and/or SSH? > > This would be a box that is hanging on the internet. > AWS mentions things like elastic IP address -- experience with DNS > entries for hosting a static web site? Can this actually work for > email delivery? > > > How do you ensure that these systems are running? > I'm thinking of actually putting a mail server in this cloud, but I'm > not sure that I can count on it running 24x7. Can I? How do I know > what I'm "down"? > > I'm just trying to figure out a cheap alternative to running a server > in my house 24x7 generating heat, noise, and stuck on a dynamic IP > address. > > The alternative is a VPS hosted box. But I want to ask about this > one first. > > Many thanks! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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