Comments on: I bought my own server for $1.02 (USD!)

By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:32:06 +0000

I never participated in that program, but I remember it. Sorry it got shut
down–seemed like a brilliant way to get customers (or prospective
customers) access to play with cool new stuff!

By: Ignacio Ruiz

Ignacio Ruiz — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:52:51 +0000

HP used to have a “Testdrive” program where they offered free access for evaluation purposes on HPUx-Linux boxes; some of them even with Oracle databases running. Unfortunately they shutdown the project, too bad

By: Il Cloud Computing avanza « Oracle and other

Il Cloud Computing avanza « Oracle and other — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:50:50 +0000

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By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:27:46 +0000

Never heard of anywhere to get time on HPUX or AIX servers. Maybe you could find an old one on ebay or something. Certainly wouldn't be $1.02 like Amazon, but if you need it badly enough…

By: Yong Huang

Yong Huang — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:12:05 +0000

Slightly off-topic. Do you, or anybody here, know where I can get very cheap access to an account on an HPUX, and AIX box? Occasionally I need to check something, or even write some programs (OS-dependent) on those platforms. Pay by access time is a great idea for me. But Amazon cloud doesn't offer those OS's.
--yong321 @ yahoo.com

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:10:43 +0000

Wow. Yeah I remember Matt talking up EC3 when we were working together. But I never actually did the math – that's a way better deal then I imagined it would be. I'm definitely going to remember this one. Having the AMIs up there makes a big difference – how long have they been there?

I think you could do a similar thing by just taking a snap of an existing VM with the appropriate version of Oracle and starting it as a new server. I keep a library of different versions on a big hard drive at home. You could probably get a similar time-to-completion that way, and I really like having it run right on my laptop (especially nice for demos and such)… but still – this is really cool! Great post!

By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:29:22 +0000

Glad to hear it. I was surprised how easy it was and with the step-by-step set up by Oracle and the new web-based console, it will be even easier than when I tried I think.

Good luck. I'll look for your blog entry about your attempt soon .

By: Greg Partenach

Greg Partenach — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:03:04 +0000

wow leave it to Matt to suggest that one. Your post was encouraging enough to make we want to try it. If for nothing else than to bypass that 40 minutes of getting media, installing, configuring, and so on. I think I am going to let people know abut this as well.

By: Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:09:01 +0000

Already been done by Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/cloud/dem...

Just replace all references to the Elasticfox plugin with http://console.aws.amazon.com/ and it should work. Good luck–let me know if you run into issues and I'd be happy to try to help.

By: Ittichai Chammavanijakul

Ittichai Chammavanijakul — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:07:36 +0000

Dan,

Thanks for information. I've heard of Amazon EC2 for awhile but did not realize that there is an Oracle DB 11g image option. I may give it a try. Any chance you might post instructions?

Ittichai