Ran into VTUG co-leader Chris Williams, at the recent Spring Ahead 2016 New England event in the lovely seaside town of Portsmouth, NH. After I had the opportunity to hear him participate in a panel discussion Practical Cloud, we got to catching up on SuperServers, careers, and life. I had checked out his blog at mistwire.com and let him know how impressed I was with the quality of posts there. For example, check out his very thorough VSPHERE 6 – ESXi Upgrade article. So I subscribed.
Yesterday, that subscription alerted me to his new post, where again he skips NO steps in the process of describing this technical task:
- How to get your free* AWS account & spin up your first VM
May 02 2016 by Chris Williams at Mistwire - Virtualization, Technology, and Design
Having poked around a few of the oh-so-many offerings at AWS (Amazon Web Services) myself, this post really caught my attention. The price seems right too. And c'mon, I already have a AWS account, see my related article, Easy install Amazon CloudFront CDN with WordPress Plugin W3 Total Cache, and some AWS CDN speed tests below. Isn't it a good to know how to run a VM, anywhere? I realize not everybody wants (or can afford) a home lab.
So, if you're looking for a bit of tinkering to do in a rather big cloud, give Chris' article a read, and consider dropping him a comment letting him know how it went. I know I will!
See also at TinkerTry
- The infrastructure behind TinkerTry.com, including the hosting and CDN providers
Sep 15 2014
AWS CloudFront is pretty expensive for a blog the size of TinkerTry, but they do have outstanding support, combined with raw download speeds much faster than KeyCDN and CDN77. You get what you pay for. Speed test for youself!
CDN (Content Delivery Network) Download Speed Tests:
Temporary test links, you may have to bypass Chrome security warnings.
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AWS CloudFront
10mb.bin to test file download speeds. -
KeyCDN
10mb.bin to test file download speeds. - CDN77
10mb.bin to test file download speeds.