Estimated Costs for Running BigBlueButton on Amazon EC2?

[BBB_Educacion a Distancia]

Hey guys,

We are thinking of using Amazon to deploy our BBB implementation.

The classes will be given 2 times a week to 30 students in Bolivia.

Each class runs for 90 minutes.

According the formula in the FAQ we would be using 6.7 gb/hour - 54 gb/month

We tried to figure the cost in the Amazon website, but we don't quite understand how it works and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Walter Tak]

You pay per hour you use the server ; it depends on which instance you chose ; prices are around 0.15 cents for a medium instance
You pay per Gb around 0.12 - 0.15 USD cents ; first 10 Gb is free , per month

You pay for offline storage (EBS) , you need this else when your instance would be terminated you would lose all your data (database etc)

You pay for better storage speed (optimized EBS) and for optimized instances

Pricing depends on the physical location of your virtual instance (sic!) ; e.g. South America is possible but more expensive than locations in the US. Virginia is the cheapest.

For details ; http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

Do understand that:

1. the power of an Amazon EC2 instance is in general not that fast compared to modern dedicated hosting

2. the price per hour adds up ; 0.15 USD per hour means 24 * 31 = 111 USD when you run your instance 24 hrs a day

3. the costs for traffic is not cheap ; 100 Gb means 12 USD extra

4. Amazon is not always 'that' stable , imho

Compare for instance with http://www.100tb.com/ ... They offer 100 TERABYTE of data AND a beefy server for around 200 USD a month. Yes you have to handle a lot of things yourself, just like on Amazon.

An alternative is to use a cheap VPS. Those can be had from 5 USD (!) per month and could very well suit your needs.

Regards,
Walter

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[GMail]

You'll find that if you use Joyent Public Cloud it will be cheaper for you and rock solid stable.

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[BBB_Educacion a Distancia]

Thank you guys!

[Brandon Youngdale]

At the end you mention a VPN service for 5$ a month. Which service are you referring to?