Test mirror of www.bawdo.com
I have been meaning to try out EC2 for a couple of years now. Finally did so a few days ago. It is extremely easy to get a basic instance up and running.
The site you are on now is currently hosted on a micro instance and is for testing only. Feel free to leave a comment (if it works), however if www.bawdo.com does eventually migrate over to EC2 I will likely burn this instance away. Including any content or comments left here now.
Anyway, back to EC2. I chose a basic Amazon provided micro AMI. I have not dug into it too much but it appears to be CentOS based. It is a minimal install so here is what I installed in order to setup this test instance.
1. gcc - sudo yum install gcc
2. git (compiled from source)
3. rvm
4. Ruby - install via rvm
5. Ruby on Rails - install via rvm
6. Required gems for this site.
7. screen - sudo yum install screen
And so far that is about it.
The instance has been online for around 72 hours and I have taken two snapshots of the EBS containing my root volume. The bill so far is USD 1.72.
Sat 06 Nov 2010, 16:20
2 comments
Bawdo
Matt Boothman