[UPHPU] Web hosting suggestions

[Jonathan Duncan]

On 17 Sep 2010, at 15:58, Joseph Scott wrote:

> If you are up for paying in advance you can do a reserved EC2
> instance.  For one year on a micro instance that comes in just under
> $10/month (if you amortize the upfront fee over 12 months).  That
> doesn't include bandwidth charges.  If you were willing to go 3 years
> it is under $7.50/month.
> 
> http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
> 

Again, for Amazon to work for you and to be able to keep the costs minimal without disrupting service, you need to be willing to monitor your usage and modify settings to match your requirements.  Also, running an EC2 instance without an EBS volume is asking for data loss unless you implement your own data backup solution.