From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 13:49:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41975106566C for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:49:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nzp@riseup.net) Received: from mx1.riseup.net (mx1.riseup.net [204.13.164.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D188FC15 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:49:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fruiteater.riseup.net (fruiteater-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.74]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "Gandi Standard SSL CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A268059DEE; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:31:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: nzp@fruiteater.riseup.net) with ESMTPSA id 8D3DD6DD Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:31:06 +0100 From: Nikola =?utf-8?B?UGF2bG92acSH?= To: "firmdog@gmail.com" Message-ID: <20111217133106.GA41356@sputnjik.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: "firmdog@gmail.com" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.2 at mx1 X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 for production servers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:49:43 -0000 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.