I really want to run my own server full-time. So, I terminated the small instance of my EC2 and created a micro instance. Much cheaper. I’ll keep it going full-time. Can’t really build on something if it’s not running constantly.
My micro instance is here. Not much to see right now but the fact that you can click on the link and get a page dished up means that it is real.
What’s next? I’m going to map river.donovanwatts.com for easy access. Then I’m going to selectively pull in some feeds for my River2 aggregator and go from there.
At the very least, I’ll have easy access to my favorite RSS feeds.
In time, I intend to create several rivers of news. Not sure if I am supposed to create multiple instances or if I can do this with one micro instance.
Still diggin’.
For those of you following along and asking how this blog post is any different from the one I created earlier, the answer is that here I’m talking about a micro instance. In the other post, I refer to a small instance. One tiny change that makes a huge difference in cost.