Shaun

This particular one is an Amazon EC2 Win2008 server that is running as a t1.micro "spot instance" (Amazon's jargon not mine). Spot instances enable you to bid for unused Amazon EC2 capacity.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/

January's bill was a bit less than $14. This machine has been running 24/7 since the 7th December, 2011.

We run quite a few of these things (big and small) on EC2 so give me a yell if you need more info.

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Pixie

"It's worth remembering that profit isn't profit until it's spent off the racecourse." -- Crash