Minimum Viable Ops - Deploying your first Django App to Amazon EC2

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Thank you for posting this, it's exactly the kind of guide I've been looking for. I have a django site running on a local server at my workplace, that will only ever have four or five users. I have considered making the site public so that my colleagues can use the site from home as well as at work.

Do you know what would it cost to keep a site like this running for a second year, once I've run through my free year?

Glad somebody's reading it :) Thank you.

Looking at Amazon's pricing page (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing) if you stick with 1 micro Linux instance past the free first year it's $0.02 per hour which works out to $14/month. Add some data in/out costs and I reckon you'd be looking at about $16/month.

Move up a step to the small Linux instance at $0.085c per hour and it becomes ~$70 per month but I imagine that could support a fair few users.

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