Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:31:06 +0100 From: Nikola =?utf-8?B?UGF2bG92acSH?= <nzp@riseup.net> To: "firmdog@gmail.com" <firmdog@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 for production servers? Message-ID: <20111217133106.GA41356@sputnjik.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <CAHcg-UEXhUKCy0u6HYPeqFBx6bCgfAXjSbPSywo7XBQaVGNezA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHcg-UEXhUKCy0u6HYPeqFBx6bCgfAXjSbPSywo7XBQaVGNezA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:42:01PM -0500, firmdog@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > Amazon AWS offers a free tier service for the first year, for one > running instance of FreeBSD (and other OS's) It's a great place to > experiment for free if you don't have any spare hardware. I have > installed a few FreeBSD servers up there and it seems to work fine, > and I would like to take some servers up in the AWS system. Here is > some information to look at: > > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ > > I posted the following on the AWS EC2 forum with no response, > therefore asking here to see if anyone is using EC2: > > Is anyone running production servers using the FreeBSD 8.2 AMI on EC2? > I want to take my servers up to AWS and run DNS, email, web, mysql, > apache, ssl, etc... mainly to have reliable power and I like the > versatility at AWS. For those on FreeBSD up here in AWS, how is it > working? Stable? Reliable? Any gotchas or knows issues you can share? > Any comments or feedback would be awesome to read! >From how I understood a Twit podcast on the subject featuring cperciva@ who did the porting, http://tarsnap.com runs on FreeBSD. Since it's a commercial service I can only assume it works good enough(tm), but I really have no first hand experience so consider this post wrapped in disclaimers :). -- If the meanings of "true" and "false" were switched, then this sentence would not be false.
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