From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 03:12:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA84A106564A for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:12:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from firmdog@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B92548FC0A for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:12:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbcc3 with SMTP id c3so2919291pbc.13 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:12:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=9sv490w2h9G/BOFviVx23v588//AXKseEt3q6ybmdHs=; b=jRJJXQW7mv5idzLMdcNvjt/8kANqyuB6URYgHt3hiIECLJwkwHggc8zf/+3zUvv9tG 0ccwtiq1/XzbBMyNg+icaTeKf+ARSLYmkBAlYJQikz7dulmRULG+W29Y+Su9CLi84NAa fe2qcwWnNWRTon5ILgQ4/ULTWzYF/Xb3416hQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.75.165 with SMTP id d5mr20326607pbw.24.1324089721239; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:42:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.56.38 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:42:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:42:01 -0500 Message-ID: From: "firmdog@gmail.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: FreeBSD on Amazon AWS EC2 for production servers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:12:23 -0000 Hi, Amazon AWS offers a free tier service for the first year, for one running instance of FreeBSD (and other OS's) It's a great place to experiment for free if you don't have any spare hardware. I have installed a few FreeBSD servers up there and it seems to work fine, and I would like to take some servers up in the AWS system. Here is some information to look at: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ I posted the following on the AWS EC2 forum with no response, therefore asking here to see if anyone is using EC2: Is anyone running production servers using the FreeBSD 8.2 AMI on EC2? I want to take my servers up to AWS and run DNS, email, web, mysql, apache, ssl, etc... mainly to have reliable power and I like the versatility at AWS. For those on FreeBSD up here in AWS, how is it working? Stable? Reliable? Any gotchas or knows issues you can share? Any comments or feedback would be awesome to read!