So your whole anycast setup is over Amazon? Didn't the plan to get your own PI block work out for you?

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Speaking of Amazon...same test writing to EBS on a Micro instance:

Same applies to Amazon however.

http://gigaom.com/cloud/new-windows-azure-goes-all-ssd-to-one-up-amazon-in-the-cloud/

Amazon EC2 has a nice panel...Microsoft's is just slicker because it's new.

Nice control panel, though! It's actually amazingly slick - async notification, task queues, etc. Nicer than Amazon's EC2.

And finally, Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure both have command-line tools. Inbound bandwidth is free, storage is 10-12 cents/GB. The S3 Linux tools are more robust.

* creating an on-demand Amazon EC2 Micro instance

I use amazon S3. I don't use that much space so I usually only pay about 50 cents a month or so.

Also you can just rent the Amazon EC2 instance with 2xgpu, that would probably do it in 30 minutes (and cost 1$)

@William - by the way, any plans with Dublin? It would be nice to have especially that Amazon and soon HP cloud are here. There is a good DC http://www.citadel100.com/ in National Digital Park in Wes

Basically, I'm usually an absolute slacker and probably spend more of my time in college lessons browsing LET and ordering from Amazon than actually doing my work. As you can probably imagine, this ca

@Aldryic, I think you could probably write a book on online fraud detection/prevention and sell it on Amazon. There is not really any good guide I have found. There's some common sense stuff, the ma

Cool, my score (88) is better than the ones of amazon.com or accounts.google.com (85 each).

Be very careful to read the fine print, then. Some of Amazon's options involve relinquishing the right to sell in other places as long as it's still on their Market. (though I'm fairly certain they a

@Aldric Ha! - that was my first idea, too. Mainly, because I would not have to setup and configure the shop for him if he was using Amazon directly. But he insists of using both channels: Amazon AND d

@Amitz - My wife recommends Amazon, actually. You end up with commission from each sale (there's a bunch of different options to choose from), plus it's available on their marketplace for ease of acc

tarsnap is indeed quite pricy, and now amazon has dropped the upload prices so if it is only for the costs go to amazon..