[Techtalk] General advice on cloud computing

Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com
Sun Jun 7 02:55:07 UTC 2009


Does anyone have experience w/ commerical cloud computing?

I need 100 computers on 100 different IP addresses for about an hour.

newservers.com offers this for $20 (11c/hour/CPU, but a min of $20) +
no storage/bandwidth charges (unless I go over some reasonable
limits). This isn't an endorsement: does anyone know of a
better/cheaper cloud computing provider?

My concern: setting up a server/VPS, even to do a single quick job,
takes time. You have to install the open-source software you need,
setup ssh-keygen style trust between various machines, and do lots of
other small things.

For a simple job, I can do this in under an hour (w/ time enough left
to actually run my app), but I don't want to do it 100 times. Do cloud
computing providers offer some sort of "run this command on all 100
machines at once" command?

Any general advice/recommendations appreciated.

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