Archive for the ‘servers’ Category
Hosting Websites - Shared or Dedicated?
For years I’ve been developing websites. And hosting is always a major issue to consider from the very start of the development process. But, there’s always one big question. Should one choose a hosting company to host their website on a shared server, or is it worth getting a dedicated server? Lets first look at [...]
Exploring Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
This week I’ve been reading a great deal about Amazon EC2, a service which lets you rent servers from Amazon’s huge server farms from as little as 10 cents/hour ($73/month).
The principle behind EC2 is genius. You select which ‘AMI’ (linux image) you want to start your server with, then choose what spec you want.
Here’s the [...]
