I'm a very experienced systems administrator in Amazon or Rackspace. In regards to doing this, I understand how it's going to work:
Windows extra large+ instance (running around 12-18 hours) - you guys will be deploying and configuring it
100 micro instances running a proxy service (running around 12-18 hours) you have the application or are suggesting we'll need to do that as part of the work like setting up squid? can provide you with an automated deploy script that can be used from your local boxes (so if you need more later on you can easily implement it) and these will all be in the same security group
Questions that may change my bid price:
- Do these need to be in the same region like US East, West, etc...?
- In Amazon you can reboot servers to get new IP address (not a guarantee they change, we could also create a script that uses 1 Elastic IP that will be set on the instance then removed to automatically change the IP address without shutting it down and losing time, however both internal and external IPs always change)
- How are you planning on changing the IPs the Windows server access? Do you want these 100 micro instances load balanced and the windows server requests access via the load balancer then to the micro instance (I would use HAProxy for this work)
- Automated shutdown and startup? can script this and then provide you the script to run on your local boxes (can also use cron/task scheduler for the shutdowns, but for the startup you need a script, so might as well have the script do both)
Please see my work/education experience on my profile to get an idea of my competency.
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