Get a Free XEN VPS With 613MB of RAM For a Year!

Hey,

Amazon launched their free tier of Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) on Nov 1 and some of you beginners can use it to practice some linux or host some of your blogs.

Here's what's included:

750 Hours of single Micro instance. (Enough to run for a month )

15GB In BW and 15GB Out BW

10Gb DISK

1 vCPU

613MB of RAM

Up to 4 Elastic IPs.

All that free for a year!


More details here:

This is only valid for new users though. You need to sign up then go to your dashboard to launch your instance.

Requirements:

1. A Credit Card
2. A Valid Phone Number (They'll give you an automated call)

HOWTO:

1. Make sure you only create Micro instances (t1-micro).
2. Make sure you don't choose Amazon AMIs but Community AMIs.
3. Check your bandwidth occasionally. BW is damn expensive on Amazon and you can find $100s due if you exceed the 15GBs.

You can even use the service as a CDN to speed up your existing sites but I wouldn't recommend you to use it for big files such as videos and large images because 15GB just won't cut it. If you exceed the 15GB it will be $0.10 per additional GB which is BS!:whoo:

Enjoy this fine service from Amazon,
Josh

What can i do with that beside learning linux and hosting some blogs?