[HECnet] Intro and New User Questions

[Brian Hechinger]

So it looks like running a t2.nano full out will cost $4.75/month.

That's reasonable.

On Dec 18, 2017 08:24, "Brian Hechinger" <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:

> 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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