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Are you talking about Elastic Block Store IO? Move away from original EBS volumes, use General Purpose SSSD (now default) or provisioned IOPS volumes.

Re:AWS, this test benchmarked Cloudways managed WordPress on top of AWS. They don't specify instance type, underlying software config, etc. This has little to do with AWS.

Have you considered digging deeper into Elastic Beanstalk? There's a deeper level of understanding than what the AWS Management console provides.

The author of this article is out of his depth. This reminds me of a manager that once told me when it comes to open source "you get what you pay for".

HN please buy Sublime Text licenses if you're using the product. No excuses, they are way more than fair about offering out a usable honesty based trial.

I don't see it mentioned much but Aptana Studio is a strong IDE. You could think of it as a distribution of Eclipse.

In terms of cost/expense, AWS is very cost effective for this type of work load.

If you build out the skill set and scripts to run this type of job, you can process the images, store them on S3 and kill the running infrastructure. You can then run this process for big and small workloads as the needs arise on demand without having to own servers or space in a data center.

First consider thumbnailing these in the fly as they're requested by the user. But if you must mass convert them, this job must be parallelized among many compute nodes; overly tuning the processing of each conversion probably won't be very fruitful.

You probably want to move these images to AWS S3 and run compute jobs and upload the resulting images back up to S3. You could create AWS Simple Queue Messages with the S3 URLs of each of the images and pop messages and autoscale EC2 instances based on the depth of that queue. What's the plan for these files after they're processed?

I am local, have deep AWS experience and have next week off if you'd like some pro bono advice.

50TB S3 ~$1500/month SQS ~$0.50/million messages

The movie ticket vs. book price example in the article above seems like it comes from the article below. This is a great read regarding the history of the paperback. I know this is a complex issue, but I really do feel Amazon is on the consumer's side. $15+ for a non-transferable ebook is ludicrous.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12247/how-paperbacks-transfor...

The cheapest Github account is extremely economical if you price out all the features you get with the account. For your needs and price point, I don't think you're going to find (or even be able to identify) much of a difference for from your end users' experience.

share.php?r=66a5813d my session.

I wasn't paying attention and clicked the Play button and thought I was about to see a presentation. Imagine my surprise as a professional *nix systems admin as I was presented with a root terminal open on a gnome session. I didn't realize how new the posting was and I was caught off guard and flabbergasted.

With the haste of a thief I moused over to the terminal and ran curl icanhazip.com to get the external IP. As I was thinking to myself, "This must be someone's fuck up", I started a basic port scan on the external ip from a another workstation. Seeing it was running, and back on the pinemango.com vm I telnetted to a port in the low 5000s I figured was vnc, then the session crapped out. Right, I've seen it do that before (whoops).

Cool idea, I've inferred some of the stack from my side of things. I'd love to know your thoughts or war stories about managing the systems.

Why an old school version of Ubuntu, just wondering? Would you like help scripting/pairing down the user session?