18 Dec
2017
18 Dec
'17
2:26 p.m.
So it looks like running a t2.nano full out will cost $4.75/month.
That's reasonable.
On Dec 18, 2017 08:24, "Brian Hechinger" <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
They have recently introduced per second billing. I
don't know how much
you need to use in a second to get billed though.
Might be interesting to run simh on a t2.nano for a month and see what it
costs.
On Dec 17, 2017 18:03, "Mark Pizzolato" <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
> > > On Dec 17, 2017, at 1:25 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > I just had a potentially dangerous thought. I'm already considering
> learning
> > about Amazon cloud server stuff and migrating my Wordpress blog from the
> > web service it presently lives on to my own AWS instance, so I can have
> more
> > control over it.
> > >
> > > Is anybody doing any DECnet/HECnet related stuff on AWS yet? I wonder
> if it
> > > might be hard to spin up something like a HECnet portal on an AWS
> instance
> > > without running up big bills? I'd be willing to burn up to a hundred
> bucks a
> > > year doing something silly like that, assuming that exposing
> something like an
> > > OpenVMS 7.3 instance to the public internet isn't a profoundly bad
> idea.
> > >
> > > I think y'all need to talk me away from the edge of the cliff now.
> I'll leave it
> > > up to you which direction you talk me. :D
> >
> > That could be interesting, but it could also be very expensive. Isn't
> some of
> > the AWS pricing based on how much CPU time you use? The VM I have
> > running on ESXI is using about 57% of the host CPU. It doesn't matter
> to me,
> > but in a situation where you have to pay for the resources you use, I
> would
> > think this could be a problem.
> >
> > BTW, as I recently posted on the SIMH mailing list, I had setup that VM
> to
> > throttle, and forgotten about it. When I moved from playing with PDP-11
> > emulation, to actively running Simh/VAX 24/7, it caused major issues,
> and a
> > Raspberry Pi was performing better. Since I changed that, it's my
> fastest VAX.
> > :-)
>
> I'm not sure how AWS keeps track of CPU usage, but a simh VAX instance
> running VMS with idling enabled will normally consume very little host
> system
> resources unless it is really doing something. When the network is
> otherwise
> idle, it will wake up briefly once every 10ms to implement a simulated
> clock
> tick and very quickly go back to sleep.
>
> - Mark
>
>