[ec2-beta] Instances show no console output, do not respond?

[Neal McBurnett]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:32:50AM -0600, Eric wrote:
> I think the main issue is the machine not booting up at all, no any
> console booting (though i did see it once, but my key got over written
> (my fault)) so i couldnt use it.

I'm missing something here.  What did you see once?  Did you
regenerate your key?  Have you ever gotten in via ssh?

> PS: is there an irc channel to have discussion with some of the experts?

You bet.  Depending on the question I'd recommend #ubuntu-virt or #ubuntu-server.

> PSS: Can you have persistant instances? it seams my instances
> dissapear after i shut them down, so if i were to build a server would
> i just loose everything each time? (wouldnt think thats the case).

This is a big surprise for most users.  No - you don't get any
persistence of the disk (or ram of course).  The way to get data
persistence is to use external storage like Amazon's S3 service,
or your own networked database.

By itself, EC2 is a compute cloud.  You need to combine it with other
stuff to get full scalable web services etc.

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/