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Comment by powdahound | Hacker News Reader

Made this a while back because I was sick of the way Amazon's instance info (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/) and pricing info (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/) were on different pages in a hard-to-browse format.

Hoping this helps people compare and choose new instances following yesterday's troubles.

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If you want ec2instances.info without the www to work you might consider using WWWizer (http://www.wwwizer.com/)

Basically you can point any domain's A record to 174.129.25.170 and it will redirect you to the www subdomain.

Or you use a .htacess and do not give a random person control over your domain.

  Options +FollowSymlinks
  RewriteEngine on
  rewritecond %{http_host} ^ec2instances.info [nc]
  rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.ec2instances.info/$1 [r=301,nc]

The site is hosted on S3 so that type of configuration isn't an option. More details: http://powdahound.com/2011/03/hosting-a-static-site-on-amazo...

If you registered it with GoDaddy, you can use their free domain parking service.

That's a great idea. Just hooked it up.

Simple, but highly functional. That's the right way to do it.

Any chance we could get some other regions in there too?

You bet - I'm hoping to add more regions and data once I have some free time. Still putting out some EC2 fires from yesterday.

This is very helpful, thanks. I also hate Amazon's tables.

You should put up a donation link.

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