DanNorris.com: I bought my own server for $1.02 (USD!)
chet
· 11 months ago
That's very cool stuff. My company has been looking at this offering as a means for development and testing. I'll forward this on to the appropriate authorities though...
Miladin
· 11 months ago
You mean to me :)
Ittichai Chammavanijakul
· 11 months ago
Dan,
Thanks for information. I've heard of Amazon EC2 for awhile but did not realize that there is an Oracle DB 11g image option. I may give it a try. Any chance you might post instructions?
Just replace all references to the Elasticfox plugin with http://console.aws.amazon.com/ and it should work. Good luck--let me know if you run into issues and I'd be happy to try to help.
Greg Partenach
· 11 months ago
wow leave it to Matt to suggest that one. Your post was encouraging enough to make we want to try it. If for nothing else than to bypass that 40 minutes of getting media, installing, configuring, and so on. I think I am going to let people know abut this as well.
Dan Norris
· 11 months ago
Glad to hear it. I was surprised how easy it was and with the step-by-step set up by Oracle and the new web-based console, it will be even easier than when I tried I think.
Good luck. I'll look for your blog entry about your attempt soon :).
Jeremy
· 11 months ago
Wow. Yeah I remember Matt talking up EC3 when we were working together. But I never actually did the math - that's a way better deal then I imagined it would be. I'm definitely going to remember this one. Having the AMIs up there makes a big difference - how long have they been there?
I think you could do a similar thing by just taking a snap of an existing VM with the appropriate version of Oracle and starting it as a new server. I keep a library of different versions on a big hard drive at home. You could probably get a similar time-to-completion that way, and I really like having it run right on my laptop (especially nice for demos and such)... but still - this is really cool! Great post!
Yong Huang
· 11 months ago
Slightly off-topic. Do you, or anybody here, know where I can get very cheap access to an account on an HPUX, and AIX box? Occasionally I need to check something, or even write some programs (OS-dependent) on those platforms. Pay by access time is a great idea for me. But Amazon cloud doesn't offer those OS's. --yong321 @ yahoo.com
Dan Norris
· 11 months ago
Never heard of anywhere to get time on HPUX or AIX servers. Maybe you could find an old one on ebay or something. Certainly wouldn't be $1.02 like Amazon, but if you need it badly enough...
Ignacio Ruiz
· 8 months ago
HP used to have a "Testdrive" program where they offered free access for evaluation purposes on HPUx-Linux boxes; some of them even with Oracle databases running. Unfortunately they shutdown the project, too bad
Dan Norris
· 8 months ago
I never participated in that program, but I remember it. Sorry it got shut down--seemed like a brilliant way to get customers (or prospective customers) access to play with cool new stuff!
All Comments
Thanks for information. I've heard of Amazon EC2 for awhile but did not realize that there is an Oracle DB 11g image option. I may give it a try. Any chance you might post instructions?
Ittichai
Just replace all references to the Elasticfox plugin with http://console.aws.amazon.com/ and it should work. Good luck--let me know if you run into issues and I'd be happy to try to help.
Good luck. I'll look for your blog entry about your attempt soon :).
I think you could do a similar thing by just taking a snap of an existing VM with the appropriate version of Oracle and starting it as a new server. I keep a library of different versions on a big hard drive at home. You could probably get a similar time-to-completion that way, and I really like having it run right on my laptop (especially nice for demos and such)... but still - this is really cool! Great post!
--yong321 @ yahoo.com
down--seemed like a brilliant way to get customers (or prospective
customers) access to play with cool new stuff!