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Originally Posted by MrWooster
FWIW, I have hosted no amazon for over a year now. My setup is super simple (just a single server), but I have never had any issues, and although there is a steep learning curve, there is also nothing that cant be found by googling/checking the forums.
Yeah, I'm strongly leaning towards amazon, just haven't really spent the time yet.
FWIW, I have tons of experience with server admin and networking, so really it's just a matter of figuring out how Amazon does their stuff. I don't expect it to be hard, it's just finding the dedicated time to learn it.
I wish there was a good way to estimate some of the micro costs, like requests to storage for example. I'm kind of expecting my monthly costs for a reasonable load balanced setup to run me ~$3k/mo. Part of that is the fact we're built on SQL server, so there's a pretty good chunk of built in cost for the SQL server 24/7.