Re: [PLUG] [semi-OT] need free basic web host

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

On 4/18/12 7:33 PM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> It's pay-as-you-go before the cloud was popular, and it's designed for 
> humans to use, unlike the Amazon APIs which are fundementally designed 
> for automated tools to use. 
Yeah, Amazon did it exactly right.
1.  Write an API that a program can use
2.  Write small CLI wrappers that call the API, so they can be called
     from the command line or from scripts/batch files.
3.  Write a GUI interface that calls the API:
            https://console.aws.amazon.com

Do NOT skip step 1 like Microsoft did when they created their
bonehead "shortcuts" that are only available from the GUI, not
from the CLI or an API.

--Fred
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