[HECnet] Intro and New User Questions

[Brian Hechinger]

They have recently introduced per second billing. I don't know how much you
need to use in a second to get billed though.

Might be interesting to run simh on a t2.nano for a month and see what it
costs.

On Dec 17, 2017 18:03, "Mark Pizzolato" <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
> > > On Dec 17, 2017, at 1:25 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > I just had a potentially dangerous thought. I'm already considering
> learning
> > about Amazon cloud server stuff and migrating my Wordpress blog from the
> > web service it presently lives on to my own AWS instance, so I can have
> more
> > control over it.
> > >
> > > Is anybody doing any DECnet/HECnet related stuff on AWS yet? I wonder
> if it
> > > might be hard to spin up something like a HECnet portal on an AWS
> instance
> > > without running up big bills? I'd be willing to burn up to a hundred
> bucks a
> > > year doing something silly like that, assuming that exposing something
> like an
> > > OpenVMS 7.3 instance to the public internet isn't a profoundly bad
> idea.
> > >
> > > I think y'all need to talk me away from the edge of the cliff now.
> I'll leave it
> > > up to you which direction you talk me. :D
> >
> > That could be interesting, but it could also be very expensive.  Isn't
> some of
> > the AWS pricing based on how much CPU time you use?  The VM I have
> > running on ESXI is using about 57% of the host CPU.  It doesn't matter
> to me,
> > but in a situation where you have to pay for the resources you use, I
> would
> > think this could be a problem.
> >
> > BTW, as I recently posted on the SIMH mailing list, I had setup that VM
> to
> > throttle, and forgotten about it.  When I moved from playing with PDP-11
> > emulation, to actively running Simh/VAX 24/7, it caused major issues,
> and a
> > Raspberry Pi was performing better.  Since I changed that, it's my
> fastest VAX.
> > :-)
>
> I'm not sure how AWS keeps track of CPU usage, but a simh VAX instance
> running VMS with idling enabled will normally consume very little host
> system
> resources unless it is really doing something.  When the network is
> otherwise
> idle, it will wake up briefly once every 10ms to implement a simulated
> clock
> tick and very quickly go back to sleep.
>
> - Mark
>
>
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