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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 03:13:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <05DDE068-4F38-43CD-B348-A0077AEBFFEC@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dbd92dbb-0885-7e3f-39be-ae6f1b356004@bonedaddy.net>


> On 18 Aug 2017, at 13:28, Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net> wrote:
> 
>> Many thanks, that's very helpful.
>> 
>> So AWS instances work like any other VM? I can ssh into them, install packages on them and so on?
>> … 
> 
> Yes, you can ssh in to them as usual (assuming you have allowed it in your security group/firewall of course.)
> 
> And install packages as well.  They're really just regular VM guests once so whatever you're used to with Gentoo (or other OS) is what you'll mostly get .
> 
> You'll need to look into the free tier to be sure.  You can always set alerts to email you if you're getting close to getting charged.

Thanks for your help.

Looks like the free tier is a bit skinny on storage - only 5GB.

Linode's pricing pitch, "simple pricing, no calculator needed", puts Amazon's rates to shame.

Stroller.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-19  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-26  2:57 [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs? Stroller
2017-03-26  3:16 ` Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
2017-03-26 12:27 ` Todd Goodman
2017-03-26 13:21   ` Alex Thorne
2017-03-28  2:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2017-03-28  2:38   ` John Runyon
2017-03-30 15:23     ` Harry Putnam
2017-03-29 12:53   ` Todd Goodman
2017-03-28  3:30 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2017-03-28  3:32 ` J. Roeleveld
2017-03-28 12:41 ` Alarig Le Lay
2017-03-29  4:33   ` Stroller
2017-03-29  5:43     ` Arthur Țițeică
2017-03-29  6:09       ` Stroller
2017-08-16 22:00 ` Stroller
2017-08-17 11:40   ` Todd Goodman
2017-08-17 22:05     ` Stroller
2017-08-17 23:52       ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-08-18 12:28       ` [gentoo-user] " Todd Goodman
2017-08-19  2:13         ` Stroller [this message]
2017-08-19  8:41           ` Mick

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