That's super cool of you, MJC =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

honestly hosting a few friends would cover my cost of operating the server ($72/mo) and administration/configuration is really easy. - mjc

Small Instance (Default) 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform - mjc

if I get enough people I will use a larger instance or do multiple instances as necessary - mjc

http://325i.org is hosted on it at the moment - mjc

shameless whoring bump - mjc

Liking just for the whoring. - Ladybug Heather

You probably wouldn't want to be my friend, then: 3% of $0 is $0. - DGentry

Denton - why would that matter? if you don't generate traffic, it doesn't cost me any extra :) - mjc

Wait, doesn't storage cost something on EC2 even if the blog doesn't have traffic? - Morton Fox

Morton - you get 160GB of instance storage for the OS and whatever temporary files on /dev/sda - if the instance crashes or is shut down for more than a certain period of time, it disappears - you also can use amazon's elastic block store (which uses S3 as a backup via "snapshots" and also is redundant by default) to create new scsi disks of any size that are charged at $0.10USD per gigabyte per month, plus $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests. essentially nothing - mjc

Hmmm this is a cool deal...LIKE! - Susan Beebe

Susan - feel free to poke me via twitter or facebook if you want to do this :) better than having to shell out monthly and you get a hell of a lot smarter tech support - mjc