Hosting options
I've been trying out a number of options for hosting recently, and have settled on Amazon spot instances. Here were my options: Application hosting, like Google AppEngine. I used this a lot until 2 years ago. Then they changed their pricing, and I realised what “lock-in” means. I can’t just take that code and move it to another server. Besides, I’m a bit wary of Google pulling the plug. Heroku? Same problem. I just want to take the code elsewhere and run it. Shared hosting, like Hostgator. This blog is run on Hostgator and I’m extremely happy with them. But the trouble is, with shared hosting, I don’t get to run long-running processes on any ports I like. Run you own servers. The problem here is quite simple: power cuts in India. Dedicated hosting, like Amazon EC2, Azure, GCE, etc. This remains as pretty much the main hosting option I’m a price optimisation freak. So I ran the numbers for a year’s worth of usage. I was looking at the CPU cost of a large machine with 7-8GB RAM. Bandwidth and storage are negligible. The cost per hour worked out to: ...