Thanks for elaborating. I fully agree. I'm currently using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront. I like both a lot in the sense that they are simple and take away scalability, security and backup concerns. It's also great that you pay as you go, so your bill can be 1$ or 1000$ depending on usage.
A huge problem though is that you cannot put a cap on usage. A simple DDOS can financially ruin somebody sharing a public object via these services. The community at Amazon has been requesting bill capping for years now but it is still not here.
I've considered EC2 as well. I'd love for all of JungleDragon (so also the app hosting and db) to be in the cloud in an auto-scaling way, but I find EC2 to be quite expensive because it is mostly charged by hours of computing. Since you'll typically want 24/7 computing hours for web/app/db servers, even if it's not computing a damn thing, the minimal cost per month is quite high and the advantage versus fixed charge hosting packages is simply not there.
Thanks for elaborating. I fully agree. I'm currently using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront. I like both a lot in the sense that they are simple and take away scalability, security and backup concerns. It's also great that you pay as you go, so your bill can be 1$ or 1000$ depending on usage.
A huge problem though is that you cannot put a cap on usage. A simple DDOS can financially ruin somebody sharing a public object via these services. The community at Amazon has been requesting bill capping for years now but it is still not here.
I've considered EC2 as well. I'd love for all of JungleDragon (so also the app hosting and db) to be in the cloud in an auto-scaling way, but I find EC2 to be quite expensive because it is mostly charged by hours of computing. Since you'll typically want 24/7 computing hours for web/app/db servers, even if it's not computing a damn thing, the minimal cost per month is quite high and the advantage versus fixed charge hosting packages is simply not there.