S3stat needs about 6-8 hours of compute time each day to do its thing. And those 6-8 hours all have to happen between 1am & 2am GMT. We simply wouldn't be able to pull it off without EC2.
But you're right, I still haven't convinced myself to try keeping one of those machines up for a whole month to run as a webserver. We keep a couple boxes in a colo for that sort of thing.
S3stat needs about 6-8 hours of compute time each day to do its thing. And those 6-8 hours all have to happen between 1am & 2am GMT. We simply wouldn't be able to pull it off without EC2.
But you're right, I still haven't convinced myself to try keeping one of those machines up for a whole month to run as a webserver. We keep a couple boxes in a colo for that sort of thing.