Comments on: Why Amazon Web Services just became a competitive web hosting provider

By: Updated AWS/Go Daddy dedicated server cost comparison : Thomas Brox Røst

Updated AWS/Go Daddy dedicated server cost comparison : Thomas Brox Røst — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:06:38 +0000

[...] a previous posting I did a cost comparison of a reserved Amazon Web Services EC2 instance and a comparable dedicated [...]

By: Who uses Amazon Web Services? @ Data Soup (by Ashish Thusoo)

Who uses Amazon Web Services? @ Data Soup (by Ashish Thusoo) — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:12:28 +0000

[...] mentioned above. I found an interesting post on the relative pricing of AWS and Godaddy at Thomas Brox Rost. It is a bit dated and the prices may have moved now, but it is nevertheless and interesting take [...]

By: Thomas Brox Røst

Thomas Brox Røst — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:34:27 +0000

It’s difficult to say exactly how the two options compare against each other, so I guess benchmarking is the safest bet for determining whether the price difference is worth it. The model I’m using is pretty simplistic as well – I just read an interesting comment on Hacker News that considers the business side of going with dedicated instances; well worth a read: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532893

By: bugspy

bugspy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:25:31 +0000

Thanks for the excellent post. You saved me few hours of research.
Do you think there is a performance difference in terms of network speed, response times,etc between the 2 options? It would be interesting to run ApacheBench on the 2 options and see the differences.

By: Matt Passell

Matt Passell — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:41:04 +0000

I’m not sure how to do trackbacks, but I wanted you to know I linked to this post. See http://blog.grovehillsoftware.com/2009/03/amazon-ec2-reserved-instances.html

Thanks,
Matt