Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media) -- WEB400

Yep, I use (WE use) the virtual loaner program (VLP) all the time. Yes, it's free to partners. Aaron has mentioned in these lists, and written articles, about this service. Becoming a partner costs nothing, although you do need to make some kind of declaration about a product you're working on, I believe. As a vendor, of course, we have that covered.

Each reservation on a virtual loaner is for a max of 14 days (with optional extension by 10% of that, which I always do!). You can save an image of your reservation, so you can start it again where you left off. By the way, be sure not ever to use the same image name twice - it's not designed for that - I know - been there, done that, have the bandages!

Vern

On 11/14/2010 11:57 AM, Henrik RÃtzou wrote:

If you only want an IBM i to play around with or test on for a shorter
period of
time, IBM has their VLP - it is completely free.

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Vern Hamberg<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The timeshare at www.rzkh.de will cost you 35.7 euro per month (annual
payment is 10x the monthly), if I read the site correctly - this is for
7.1 and OAR, 1GB storage, 4 libraries, 4 sessions, etc. That is about
$49 bucks today.

They have options for dedicated machines (LPARs?). And, of course, free
access at V5R3 in limited space.

I keep a free account here - don't need it much, have other options for
more recent releases. But it's not a bad deal!

Vern

On 11/13/2010 8:54 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:

Here is where I got the $65 number from, which is an entirely
dedicated and virtualized OS hosted on a shared machine:
http://www.hosting.com/services/platform-services/cloud

And if you don't need an entire virtual OS then you can go with
DreamHost at $8.95/month: http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html

I have yet to use Amazon EC2 but have used their S3 service for awhile
now (about 2yrs I think) and like it alot (mostly just to backup about
70GB of data).

Aaron Bartell
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On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Nathan Andelin<nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

From: Aaron Bartell
I do believe that if IBM did offer a service for $65/month that they
would probably lose money on that tier ...

Well, that doesn't sound very reasonable. How did you come up with

$65/month?

I think a micro partition at www.rackspace.com runs $150/month, to

start. A

10-20GB database under Microsoft Azure runs $200/month, to start.

Pricing for Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine are so goofy that I wasn't

able to

figure them out. Actually, it has been hard for me to compare pricing

because

it's hard to know what you're getting under Windows, Linux, and other

platforms.

I think the dynamic changes when you move from a discussion about a

development

server to a discussion of a deployment server. Force.com Enterprise

allows you

to deploy up to 10 applications at $50/month/user. I don't think

pricing like

that would fly in the K-12 software market where you're deploying

applications

for teachers, parents, and students.

-Nathan