This is really cool.  I have moved this blog and the dozen or so other websites I maintain to this new server.  I am pretty excited about the initial results.  Though I shouldn’t be surprised by any means.  It is just exciting to see the difference.

The old server and slow internet:

On stella it got the worst rating, as it should.

Now for the performance of the Amazon EC2 Micro instance:

Talk about a huge difference in time.  It is really the performance of what the website should be.

So far the cloud and the Amazon EC2 setup has not been bad at all.  I configured an Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick x64 instance.

The documentation is pretty good.  It was a bit difficult figuring out which ubuntu cloud instance I should choose from.  I ended up finding the following page useful:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide#Getting the images

And then to figure out how to login using PuTTY on a windows box since you can’t use the normal username/password combination:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/gsg/2007-01-19/putty.html

All in all – the information is available once you can find it.

Enjoy!