I've just spun up a Win2008R2 Datacenter virtual server at Amazon's new Sydney data centre. Performance is *EXCELLENT*.

Can you pop that url in here again please.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

going to give it a whirl over the weekend

Hey AngryPixie any chance you could give me a hand on what i need to setup for this, i have got the account and services sorted but have no idea what i need.

Ok, i think i have set it up correctly, i have a desktop similar to when i set up a win xp virtual server in win 7, just not sure if i have other configs right, looks like i am using the free service for new customers not sure if this will be enough.

Hi Shaun

What did you set up? I use a Windows 2008R2 micro spot instance. Should look more like Win7 with it's classic dress on.

I copied office to the disk last night, took about 5 hours with my internet speed i will install it today.

The specs i have are.

Windows_Server-2008-SP2-English-32Bit
Processor Xeon E5430 @ 2.66Ghz
615 MB Ram

As i said am using there free one to test, i know i will have to increase the ram but the rest should be ok.

Oh Office! Thats interesting. RDP is very slow and very chatty for data transfers. Might have made a mess of you free data transfer quota. :eek:

Those specs look like a micro instance though. :)

Oh well, all very new to this stuff so still looking around the site, i set up an alarm for biiliing.

What Ram are you using at the moment?

The 30 gig disk space should be enough for what i need.

Any idea what the free disk transfer quota is or where i can find it?

Free server is no good for me, they limit you to location in the US and betfair can't operate from there, i just tried to logon with my BA and get the message restricted from location.