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pharrington on April 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why PHP Was a Ghetto

If you want to learn a new technology, a micro EC2 instance is free for a year. You have an entire year to learn basic admin, mess around with Ruby or Python or Scala or literally -any- language that exists. Maybe you'll even make something cool and monetize it, or get noticed and land a job at an awesome company. The ubiquity of certain technologies is a non-issue when it is -trivial - to host yourself.

mgkimsal on April 20, 2011 [–]

"a micro EC2 instance is free for a year"

unless you had the nerve to already be an Amazon customer earlier.

justincormack on April 20, 2011 | [–]

Set up another account. Amazon specifically told us to do this at an AWS meetup, they really dont mind.

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