Amazon EC2 15 minute introduction using the new micro instance type

[MrLgie]

Thanks, well presented video.

[wandabannerman]

Many Thanks for this information!

[TheDefazn]

Hi great video. About the per hour charge. If the instance is running in "start" it will continuously charge per hour, what if it is "stop" will it charge still? You mentioned in the video when you terminate that is when it stops charging$. Please clarify thanks a lot!

[mrteknologik]

@TheDefazn If you stop it it will become unresponsive however you will still be charged for it as your using storage for installing the OS. To stop billing you need to terminate.

[ssatguru]

big help, thx

[casperkamaldax]

Thanks dude that helps :)

[quin834]

Gregory (or anybody else) I have a question, is there a way to boot then stop an instance (e.g between a certain time (like what cron or crontab does)?

Cheers

[amitkumarsing]

how to get a database instance on this ubantu instance ?

[dtjohnny]

Thanks for this... Very straight forward and useful.

[w1n78]

thanks for the video. just wondering if you're running your blog site on EC2. i'm trying to decide whether i should move my godaddy shared hosting account to EC2 micro. i don't get much traffic but if i can save $, it would be great. but based on your video the lowest price i will pay is $15/month versus $4/month w/ godaddy. but i do like the flexibility of EC2 where i can play around.

[MVDevilDog]

Great content. Thanks Greg!

[lordcolor]

For my previous question, I'd like to add that I'm not necessarily opting to make a web app, per se, but rather gain the freedom to use Ruby or Python and one of the popular web frameworks to try things out and to streamline a more modular approach to webdesign. Sort of. That's where I'm coming from. And, I'm on a very low-fat budget for the time being.

[lordcolor]

@gw5815 / Gregory:

Excellent bird's eye view on EC2! I have a quick question:

I'm developing a relatively (very) low-traffic website for my small graphic design agency. For backend development, I'm looking to use anything but PHP (preferably Ruby with Rails3 or even Sinatra) and 'know my way around things' to some degree – is this a considerable alternative compared to 1.) mainstream shared hosting (in my case, Dreamhost) and 2.) more expensive solutions at eg. Slicehost, Linode, et. al.?

[TolgaCakiroglu]

Great video! Thank you.

[monsterthrash]

Nice!

[ayadava]

Thank you for taking the time to make such a clear introduction, it was really helpful.