Comments on: setting up ec2 minecraft server /2011/11/setting-up-ec2-minecraft-server/ Sarah Allen's reflections on internet software and other topics Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:29:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 By: Steven Soroka /2011/11/setting-up-ec2-minecraft-server/#comment-768 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:29:17 +0000 /?p=3464#comment-768 Any feedback on small instance costs and ec2 performance?

]]> By: Grigory V. /2011/11/setting-up-ec2-minecraft-server/#comment-767 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:00:33 +0000 /?p=3464#comment-767 Hmm. Micro instances automatically scale to 2 “elastic CPU units” or whatever they call them when the load is high. I wonder if using Java 7 and a different server would help.

“ssh -i ubuntu@ec2.pem ec2-” wait, what. Do you mean “ssh -i ec2.pem ubuntu@ec2-”?

> Ubuntu takes up too much disk space by default to fit into a micro instance
Micro instances only work with EBS, 8 GB one is free. Ubuntu Server doesn’t take that much space.

Also, you don’t *have* to install Amazon’s command line tools, you can use the web interface to control instances. And screen isn’t cool, tmux is :-)

]]> By: Sarah /2011/11/setting-up-ec2-minecraft-server/#comment-766 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:44:38 +0000 /?p=3464#comment-766 Wow — nice catch, Gary!

Oddly Amazon shows no charges for this billing period, but I don’t trust their reporting: https://skitch.com/ultrasaurus/gmcrh/amazon-web-services

I’m going to run thru the steps again for a micro instance — we’re only planning on hosting a few players, so I figured it was worth a try.

]]> By: Gary /2011/11/setting-up-ec2-minecraft-server/#comment-765 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:01:21 +0000 /?p=3464#comment-765 Isn’t an EC2 micro instance free for a year, not a small instance?
Make sure you’re not getting charged more than you think!
Micro probably doesn’t have consistent enough CPU for gaming, unfortunately.

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