Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

The timeshare at www.rzkh.de will cost you 35.7 euro per month (annual payment is 10x the monthly), if I read the site correctly - this is for 7.1 and OAR, 1GB storage, 4 libraries, 4 sessions, etc. That is about $49 bucks today.

They have options for dedicated machines (LPARs?). And, of course, free access at V5R3 in limited space.

I keep a free account here - don't need it much, have other options for more recent releases. But it's not a bad deal!

Vern

On 11/13/2010 8:54 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:

Here is where I got the $65 number from, which is an entirely
dedicated and virtualized OS hosted on a shared machine:
http://www.hosting.com/services/platform-services/cloud

And if you don't need an entire virtual OS then you can go with
DreamHost at $8.95/month: http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html

I have yet to use Amazon EC2 but have used their S3 service for awhile
now (about 2yrs I think) and like it alot (mostly just to backup about
70GB of data).

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Nathan Andelin<nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Aaron Bartell
I do believe that if IBM did offer a service for $65/month that they
would probably lose money on that tier ...

Well, that doesn't sound very reasonable. How did you come up with $65/month?
I think a micro partition at www.rackspace.com runs $150/month, to start. A
10-20GB database under Microsoft Azure runs $200/month, to start.

Pricing for Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine are so goofy that I wasn't able to
figure them out. Actually, it has been hard for me to compare pricing because
it's hard to know what you're getting under Windows, Linux, and other platforms.

I think the dynamic changes when you move from a discussion about a development
server to a discussion of a deployment server. Force.com Enterprise allows you
to deploy up to 10 applications at $50/month/user. I don't think pricing like
that would fly in the K-12 software market where you're deploying applications
for teachers, parents, and students.

-Nathan




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