Agreed, also how would you mix in the cost of failure with each of those providers? (just out of curiosity)

Amazom is fairly cheap and is popular so you have lots of support dev-wise from communities.

What about features? Do other providers support something like AMIs, etc?

You beat me too it.

I setup clients up with help@example.com when permitting. Turn those noreplies upsidedown ;)

As far as I know Hydra can't run on 1.9 ( https://github.com/ngauthier/hydra/issues/29 )

Alternatively, you have parallel_tests ( https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests ) which can run on multiple cores. That's great if you use a mac pro, or some behemoth machine.

Little known there's testbot ( https://github.com/joakimk/testbot ) which can run tests across machines & cores. They've even worked in a bootstrapping process https://github.com/joakimk/testbot_cloud

From ( https://github.com/joakimk/testbot/wiki/How-testbot-is-used ) "... 60 minutes of tests to run in 10 minutes using 16 medium EC2 instances (32 cores), read the blog post." reports thoughtbot!

Code softly hackers.

Just a note about GCC/XCode on Lion (esp. if using homebrew):

The default GCC installed by Xcode is no longer GCC you expect it too be, it's actually a hybrid of LLVM and GCC

/usr/bin/gcc --version i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1

A non-hybrid version in installed at:

/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 --version i686-apple-darwin11-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1

It's a rather important change to GCC on mac, it even broke `brew install mysql` for awhile:

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/6277

Some great hackers found out it was linking to Apple's internal pthread library.

Code-softly hackers.

It also breaks building GCC due to an LLVM issue (it gives a nice internal compiler error). It's fixed in LLVM upstream, but nothing Apple ships yet.

Interested on fair grounds for closing up shop and going private, thoughts?

PS: Sorry for the hard link to the email blast they haven't linked anything online yet.

25-30 consulting, 5-15 open source, 5-15 skill maintenance/hacker news/researching/learning

In unrelated news facebook reports bankruptcy.

I ran an RO server back in 2006, I had about 80k users, and 400 concurrently from a 4 month run before closing.

I'm not sure this is valid news...

Damn Porings.

I tried it a few months back, I didn't end up using it. I felt like it was unnecessary, I rather focus on one app than two. I stuck with sabnzbd+ & nzbs.org, after newzbin was taken over.