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Taken from:  How to Set Up Your Own Amazon EC2 Server for Web Development | Asher's Web Design : "How to Set Up Your Own Amazon EC2 Server for Web Development Amazon rolled out Amazon Web Services and it has been a huge success as it has been utilized by many developers and enterprises for it's robust cloud-infrastructure and scalability. As part of a great promotion to encourage developers to use the platform it currently is offering a free EC2 instance (which I will soon show you how to set up). Go ahead and sign up for the free tier here if you do not currently have Amazon Web Services available. It will ask for your credit card but as long as you stick to the 1 EC2 micro-instance you will not be charged for the first year and can run it continuously." Go to  How to Set Up Your Own Amazon EC2 Server for Web Development | Asher's Web Design  for more detail 'via Blog this' Relate links Thoughts about using Amazon S3 Free web hosting on Google D...

Suitability Amazon is appropriate for both new and previously developed material is being migrated. Again static web content is easier to migrate. Integration with tools such as Google Analytics and WebMaster tools is relatively simple, especially if you start by adding Google Analytics first (you can use the Google Analytics account) to verify the web account. Things to remember Uploading files is relatively easy but I have been caught a couple of times: First way, and the most embarrassing, make sure the links actually point to the links within the Amazon site. It is fairly easy when migrating the site across in one go to have links to the 'old' site. slightly less embarrassing is when you upload the files you need to change the permissions to make public. It can be done late by right-clicking on the page in the AWS Management Console and selecting make public.  Adding users Other users can be given access to the website by using the permissions. This can be fo...

As an alternative free hosting option I have started looking at Amazon's web service. Go to  http://aws.amazon.com/free/ To give some idea of why I have copied details in quote below from http://aws.amazon.com/free/ "AWS Free Usage Tier (Per Month): 750 hours of  Amazon EC2  Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month * 750 hours of an  Elastic Load Balancer  plus 15 GB data processing* 10 GB of  Amazon Elastic Block Storage , plus 1 million I/Os, 1 GB of snapshot storage, 10,000 snapshot Get Requests and 1,000 snapshot Put Requests * 5 GB of  Amazon S3  standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests * 30 GB per of internet data transfer (15 GB of data transfer “in” and 15 GB of data transfer “out” across all services except Amazon CloudFront) * 25  Amazon SimpleDB  Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage ** 100,000 Requests of ...