[PLUG] Home server to Amazon S3

Dan Colish dan at unencrypted.org
Thu Jul 30 17:51:31 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:19:27AM -0700, Andrew Brookins wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I've been running my own home server for a while -- centralized
> backups, IRC, fileserver, svn (now git) repo's, etc.  It was all fun
> and games until I got married.
> 
> Now I'd like to consolidate my five home computers into one laptop and
> possibly an Amazon EC2 instance or two.  Have any of you used EC2 for
> revision control or S3 for backups, and if so, what's your experience
> been?  I know RMS isn't into it
> (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman).
> 
> I could use shared hosting for some of this, but I'm tired of rolling
> my own binaries and then figuring out broken dependencies when the
> host does an upgrade.
> 
> I checked out the cost of running an EC2 instance 24/7 and it appears
> to be less than ideal.  But am I right in thinking with a couple of
> scripts I could launch and shutdown the instance whenever I needed it?
> 
> Andrew
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S3 is fantastic for backups and its what I use for all my stuff. I am
currently using the python s3tools  http://s3tools.org/s3cmd for
managing this, but I hope to finish out my bacula setup soon enough. As
far as EC2 is concerned, it gets really expensive. You might want to
look into corenetworks.net. Thats who I use for my hosting.

--
--Dan



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