[HECnet] Intro and New User Questions

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 -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net> http://www.nf6x.net/