David Esp Video Technical Blog

Amazon lets a system admin type person rent time/space/bandwidth on Amazon’s Cloud Computing network, “Elastic Compute Cloud”, EC2 (which also sounds like “Easy-To”).  It costs e.g. about 10 cents per hour (depending on selected level of service).

• Maybe useful for CGI generation?

Setup is fiddly, but this tutorial explains how to do it from command-line, including some pragmatic tips:

• s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonEC2Tutorial/AmazonEC2Tutorial.html

Here’s an easier way, via web-based GUI:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBajLxeKqoY
  • Shows how to use via EC2 FireFireFox UI plugin, a much nicer way to work.

Generic intro to Cloud Computing:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdBd14rjcs0&feature=related

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