[Catalyst] Requirements for Catalyst

[Jason Kohles]

On Feb 22, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Jonathan Rockway wrote:

> Oh yeah, one other option is Amazon EC2.  They are very scalable (a  
> perl
> script can buy you a new machine on demand), but not quite as friendly
> (if your instance crashes, all your data is lost).  They are also kind
> of expensive.  If you use S3, though, you can save a lot of money with
> the free EC2 <-> S3 transfers.
>

EC2 has persistent storage now (now meaning as of last April), so you  
can have volumes on your hosts that are backed by S3, so you don't  
lose your data when the instance goes away.

Ultimately though, if you don't need the flexibility of EC2 and are  
planning to just have one host running 24/7, then EC2 is roughly the  
same price as just getting a colocated server somewhere.

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