AWS setup
For nearly 25 years I have been running my own actual 1U servers, not mini towers made to be servers, running dual processor XEON and usually 128 GB of RAM. I normally run 3 TB in RAID 1 configuration. But I have been thinking about going to AWS and I'm told it's easy. Just create an instance.. blah, blah, blah. That doesn't really help me much. If I am running a 300 site server what size AWS do I need? Remember that I'm used to running 3.2 GHz dual processor XEON's. I have quite a few servers but yet I can't find anybody at AWS sales department to tell me why I should switch. I can think of the many reasons to switch. Not right now when part of the internet is down on Microsoft Azure. I'm sure there's some overflow. I would appreciate your comments. I'm an experienced user and server administrator. If somebody tells me "running 300 sites of cpanel this is what you need per instance" I would be fine. Thank you in advance.
BTW: I have just over 100 1U dual Xeon servers. Specific settings for each instance would be helpful but I'm looking for a package deal where I can install say 200 servers, 300 servers. Something flexible or elastic. Do they all offer only one OS choice?
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Hey there! It's really impossible to say - I've seen servers with 5000 sites run just fine, and servers where one busy site takes down the whole system.
I would say get something that is comparable to a hardware system that you're used to.
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Thank you for your input. I'm extremely well versed in building computers. I've also been a programmer since 1981 and rather prolific. Computers don't scare me as well as hardware. The problem I have with AWS is that they advertise what they have in a manner that is not consistent with how I identify a computer. I identify a computer is a 3.2 GHz dual Zion with 128 GB of RAM 1 and 2TB HDD. I don't know what's comparable when looking at an AWS plan. Got to be honest that at this point I'm fortunate that Crowdstrike hasn't affected AWS as I think of it. I'm Linux based all the way. I have a lot of servers and part of the issue for me is provisioning one instance on AWS but being flexible so that I can add additional instances. I don't speak the language I guess is what I'm saying. Amazon does have a web hosting plan called Lightsail that offers 3 months for free. I guess that's a starting point. They've cleaned up some of their language so that it is not in a manner that I couldn't understand before. They make it clear that it's available for CMS like Wordpress, or LAMP which is what my Linux servers are set up for. Then whatever the customer installs is what they install.
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Running a bare metal server is much faster and cheaper then AWS.
You can always run your off-site backup to AWS S3 instance ;)0
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