<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>From my dealings with a cloud host on a recent account, my understanding of "instance" is that it is basically the same as a virtual machine, but because it can be anywhere in the cloud it's not quite the same.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Since Drupal "goes away" after serving the page, I don't think one need worry about the user leaving the page, even if it is in the middle of a dialog.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The "time" component is, I assume, a measure of CPU consumption, so it would be considered a valid measure of resource usage. While we used to track that back in my mainframe days, I haven't seen any stats program that does it today.</span></div><div> </div><div><font color="#ff007f" size="4" face="bookman old style, new york, times,
serif"><i><strong>Nancy</strong></i></font></div><div> <br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.</font></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> adept techlists - kazar <techlists@ade.pt><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> support@drupal.org; Ms. Nancy Wichmann <nan_wich@bellsouth.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, June 4, 2011 10:44 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [support] Cloud pricing estimates<br></font><br>
Ah, so you mean how to estimate, for example, EC2 on-demand instances. <br>Sorry I gave you lots of info you didn't need!<br><br>I have read those price matrices and I admit to being totally clueless <br>as to what an "instance" is. If someone loads up a page that leaves them <br>connected as a seat on your database, and they type a word into a <br>formfield, and they go on vacation for 3 weeks, is that an "instance"? <br>(Rhetorical question, I no longer have room for this sorta stuff in my <br>head and just hire the gals & guys who take care of that part of a job)<br><br>kazar<br>-- <br>[ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]<br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>