Getting Started with Amazon EC2 (1 year free AWS VPS web hosting)

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1. Google "Amazon Web Service free Tier"
2. http://aws.amazon.com/
3. Login (or sign-up)

Note: It'll likely fail to verify your address. Ignore the error (it's one-time only), scroll down, check the agree box, and continue again.

Free Usage Tier

1. http://aws.amazon.com/
2. My Account/console
3. AWS Management Console
4. EC2 Virtual Servers in the Cloud
5. Select region (next to help on top right)
6. Launch Instance (specific to region)
7. Choose Ubuntu 12.04 Micro (free usage tier)
8. Downlad the Pem file
9. Continue

Managing the Instance

1. Instances
2. Elastic IP
3. Allocate New Address
4. Associate Address

Logging in from Mac/linux

Host User Ubuntu Identityfile ~/.ssh/my-aws-key.pem

Logging in from Windows

1. Openputtygen
2. Go to the Conversion tab
3. Load the Pem file
4. Click Save private key
5. Openputty
6. Put the host as [email protected]
7. Load the Pem file
8. Save the profile for later use

Cost WARNING

It is extremely important so your type show up as and so you terminate the instance before your year are upt1.micro. It's also important that's not exceed the bandwidth quota.

This was just to get a flavor for a VPS, and not a true VPS solution. It's useful for Cloud Computing Services, but that's a different use case.

Use [Chunkhost][chunkhost-affiliate], Linode, or [thrustvps]thrustvps-affiliate for long-term/production use.

Errata

• By ' Good for VPSes and Web development ' I meant ' good for VPSes and Local development '
• By "We can safely allow all TCP" I didn ' t mean "safe" ... I meant "for the sake of ease"

Colloquialisms (Jargon) Slashdot effect

After the old days we didn ' t has http://reddit.com, we had http://slashdot.com. The Slashdot effect is when someone posts a article (ostensibly on Slashdot) about your site or service that drives Unexp Ected traffic to your server and causes it to become very slow or fail to respond to requests entirely. (one server can only handle so much, you see)

64-bit

Had 8-bit 8088 CPUs, barely fit to work as a calculator. Then there is the 16-bit 286, and finally the 32-bit 386 which, with a few enhancements here and there, have stuck around For the past years. The only real problem with 32-bit is that it meant that a computer could has only 4GiB of RAM, which is good enough unt Il around when we decided this 640 KiB *definitely isn ' t enough for anyone. The 64-bit x86_64 is created to solve this problem. Although the memory bus on a motherboard are often only really 42-bits or so, the processor must be a power of 2.

by AJ Oneal

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Getting Started with Amazon EC2 (1 year free AWS VPS web hosting)