In my previous post, I wrote about the real cost of running your own server on the Amazon EC2 platform. After signing up with EC2, I spent about half a day migrating my blog from WordPress.com to a self-hosted version of WordPress.org. I also migrated my very static html company website from Google App Engine to a standard Apache/PHP server.
If you are considering such migration as well, or simply interested in reading what it takes to do so, here is the process I went through…
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We all know Amazon as the leading e-commerce website in the world, selling millions of books. But did you know that for the past few years, Amazon has also been playing a leading role in Cloud Computing? Under the name of AWS (Amazon Web Services), the number one book seller offers a variety of cloud computing services such S3 (Simple Storage Service), CloudFront (a CDN competing with Akamai), Simple DB and RDS (online databases), etc… One of their most popular services is called EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and provides “resizable compute capacity in the cloud”. It literally allows you to get servers on-demand. Build and scale your infrastructure as it grows. If Amazon advertises this EC2 service as a great way to save cost on scaling big infrastructure for high-demand traffic, it is also a great way for smaller setups to build as little as one server.
In less than half a day yesterday, I got my very own EC2 server up and running and migrated this blog from wordpress.com as well as my company website from Google App Engine. Make sure to read more to find out the real cost and read this other post to find out how I handled the entire setup.
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