I chose the cheapest option on Rackspace, a 1GB 32-bit Windows 2003 server that costs $0.08 per hour, which works out to $59 per month. Significantly less than the $90 a mini-server costs on Amazon.
Is that supposed to be cheap? I used EC2 for some compute tasks a week ago; it was 23 cents per hour for an x86_64 8-core 2.16Ghz i7 system with 8 gigabytes of RAM -- which sounds way more than 3 times as powerful as the system they mention.
Running on "burst CPU" doesn't sound like a very useful strategy when I need to load a few dozen cores for a few days.
Is that supposed to be cheap? I used EC2 for some compute tasks a week ago; it was 23 cents per hour for an x86_64 8-core 2.16Ghz i7 system with 8 gigabytes of RAM -- which sounds way more than 3 times as powerful as the system they mention.
Running on "burst CPU" doesn't sound like a very useful strategy when I need to load a few dozen cores for a few days.