@jws Yes hahahaha
Will be using an EC2 spot instance as a staging environment. EC2 spot instances are dirt cheap…
Well, I passed the practice exam, but I only got 75% of the questions right :/ I think I'll do a bit more studying before I take the actual exam, because if I fail I'll have to wait another month.
@matigo Anyways, with the CDNs in place this little VPS should happily chug along to at least 5,000 active users. At that point, I'll have the financial flexibility to upgrade hardware.
@matigo I mean, the VPS that PrivateLog will be running on costs 18,770円 / year for 3 cores and 2 GB RAM. (I have a yearly contract). AWS doesn't really have an equivalent, but maybe a t2.small (1 core and 2 GB RAM). Even with a yearly reserved instance discount, it's $252/year (down from the normal $350.40/year it would cost as an on-demand instance) -- just for the EC2 resources -- current rates put that at 28,513 JPY. :-(
@matigo Amazon is not cost effective unless the flexibility really matters -- Similarly, PrivateLog will initially be on Sakura because of both cost-performance on the actual processor performance but bandwidth as well. We'll see what happens. After I get more photos uploaded to there, I'm going to need to use a caching CDN to serve them -- I'm probably going to be looking at CloudFront at that point. CloudFlare's free bandwidth is nice, but I don't trust them as much as I trust CloudFront.
I mean, I could use it for a day or two and it'd only be a handful of dollars, but when this stuff is running 24/7/365 it adds up a ton.
Anyways, doing some AWS review. The more I read about this stuff, the more I actually want to use it.
Alas, my wallet wouldn't really appreciate it…
Anyways, that's the end of my stream-of-consciousness rant. Sorry @matigo for clogging up the pipes with more technical posts :P