Thread: NASA taps Amazon AWS for cloud publishing
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Old 11-12-2013, 06:24 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares View Post


And the thing is, it might only be $50 a month spread across millions of our taxpayers. Unlike the thousands they're probably paying now.
Amazon *is* cheap--IBM this week gave up the fight for the CIA contract, but I'm pretty sure the website-that-must-not-be-named cost a lot less than that to build. And fixing it will cost even less, since the Open Source-rors are trying to fix it for free.

(I did hear the core server for the WTMNBN is a 386 with 4MB RAM they rescued from a nearby junior high. Fortunately, LINUX runs on everything.)
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