Yesterday I learned that 1 million sat instances, uncompressed, may take up 500 megs of space, which means if you leave it running for a few days and the whole machine only has 4 gb to its name (because you wanted to save money!) you might come back and find out that it spent most of its time doing nothing with a full disk.
One of my foxconn supercomputing nodes appears to have crapped out for what is either no reason, or I bumped the thumbdrive that the operating system is running on. Who knows.
My wireless network is, at times, and because of interference from neighboring apartments, too poor to support an ssh command and a netflix movie at the same time. So, now I'm faced with upgrading my home network and best buy is closed.
I experimented with the Azure offering. Amazon's prices are probably better...they offer a ton of options like spot and reserved instances to help you play games and keep the price down, but it was far easier to get an Azure machine up and running. I was stuck on the password screen for a very long time; they force you to include characters other than numbers and lower-case letters in your password. Using passwords that only contain lowercase letters and number is a religion of mine. Its bad enough when a giant software company that pays you to do computer shit forces you to have a gay ass password with capital letters in them. Its a completely different level of awful when you are forced to do it on your own time. Feeling violated, I first tried to use EC2 instead and then remembered what a giant pain it was to get those damn ssh keys set up, and went back to Azure.
Anyway, getting a SAT instance in Azure running was super easy. I think that was the point of this post. In less than the time it took to open the case of a foxconn computer with an improperly sized screwdriver (2 hours) I was able to get an Azure completely up and running.
Also, the Azure instances have domain names that are much easier to remember. So that is super awesome. I am a bit curious if I am the only customer on the planet using Azure for linux systems.
So.........I forget what the point of this was.
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