Here is a little thing that has saved me a lot of work, and which I find quite neat. I use the EC2 as my cloud computer. This page (lovholm.net) is hosted on a shared host, but sometimes it’s nice to have the flexibility to run things that are not supported by shared hosts, such as custom software and all that jazz. When I try out different web-things that are not only front-end or PHP I usually create a subdomain…
Amazon Web Service’s EC2 is the workhorse and general purpose computer in the AWS ecosystem. It is affordable (free or very cheap if you keep it scaled to the minimum option), it is easy to set up, and it provides you with a computer located in the cloud. This is a good option if you have content you would like to be accessible everywhere, and especially if you develop solutions you want to be accessible through the Internet. Here are…
AWS – Amazon Web Services – is a great infrastructure cloud service for all IT business from start-ups to full blown corporations. Providing both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) through the general purpose EC2 and Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) through Beanstalk as well as hybrid solutions such as storage solution S3 and database service RDS. I have been using these services for about half a year now, and I am convinced these services as well as competing equals (e.g. Microsoft Azure) is a good tool…