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Setting up a Free Tier Amazon EC2 Instance

By: System Admin 08/27/2012

Amazon AWS is currently offering a 'free tier' for 1 year. Simply you get a micro instance to get your server up and running, play with different settings and such. It is the standard free trial offer, but with a virtual server. If you've never used AWS before, I recommend using the free tier server to get acquainted with the capabilities of AWS then move to a real server later. Also, once you have all the settings working on the free tier instance, you can transfer to paid instance in 15 minutes. AWS Free Tier

750  hrs/month Micro instance (613 MB of RAM, Linux or Windows) 750 hrs/month Elastic Load Balancer (15 GB of data processing) 30GB of EBS space 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage

Setting up a New Instance

Amazon Cloud Hosting

By: System Admin 08/27/2012

Amazon is a huge player in the cloud hosting space. Cloud hosting is basically where a company fills a server farm with racks upon racks of physical computers, hard drives and routers. The company then uses software to combine the individual computers into a super computer which is then partitioned off into a series of virtual servers of varying sizes and types. The company then resells usage of these virtual servers to their clients. Amazon Web Services (the division which provides the service) offers a variety of different types of virtual servers, but the basic, and most flexible, is called Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2). Amazon EC2 Instances