Integrate Shift4Shop (formerly 3dcart) with Amazon EC2

An online business is a tough place to survive. There are many competitors out there and the products and services you offer are almost always less expensive elsewhere. In fact, you can buy some items for less than half the price on Amazon.com than from your store. You need to take drastic measures to get ahead of your competition. One common way of gaining an edge is by finding ways to cut costs.A good way to cut costs is by using Amazon’s EC2 service. EC2 allows you to create server virtual machines (VMs. that run in the cloud. This means that you do not need to own actual computers to host your websites at Amazon’s data centers. Instead, you are only paying for the time your VMs are running. Compared to renting physical servers or using dedicated web hosting companies like GoDaddy, you will pay much less for EC2. It also offers greater flexibility as you can create a VM in just a few minutes instead of a few days as with other alternatives.Here’s how it works:First, you choose to launch an instance based on an operating system that best fits your needs. You may launch your instance as small as 1/10th of a CPU or RAM and up to a complete machine with 64 CPUs and 244 GB of RAM. The next step is to load your own software on the instance. You can install 3Dcart or any other software you want with as little as 10 minutes of work.A third option is to use an existing AMI (Amazon Machine Image. An AMI is an operating system image that has pre-installed software such as IIS, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, etc. You can configure these images any way you want using AWS management conspe and customize them however you see fit.Then, you set a price for the instance. The more you pay, the better the hardware specifications you get but the longer it will take to boot up the machine.The best part about this spution is that all your instances are running on Amazon’s servers so there is no need to worry about backups or maintenance. When you are done using an instance, you can terminate it anytime.Everything runs within Amazon’s data centers so there is no need for any additional hardware or software for security purposes. Also, since you have a choice on which operating system and packages you use, your instances should be completely secure no matter how customized they are.As long as you have access to the internet, you can manage all your instances from anywhere in the world using SSH or RDP protocp. It is easy to transfer data from one instance to another as well.

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