[Tutorial] How To Setup Your Free Amazon Server

Amazon EC2 Pricing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

• 750 hours of EC2 running Linux/Unix Micro instance usage
  
• 750 hours of EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server Micro instance usage
  
• 750 hours of Elastic Load Balancing plus 15 GB data processing
  
• 30 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) plus 2 million IOs and 1 GB snapshot storage
  
• 15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services
  
• 1 GB of Regional Data Transfer
  

Loafers account screenshot used
US East Region
167 hours Free
124 hours Charged

US West Region
292 hours Free

EU Ireland Region
291 hours Free

167 + 292 + 291 = 750

He has three Xonotic servers running on one account, their total usage time went over the 750 hours of free usage. Thus Amazon charged him.

Running a Xonotic server for 124 hours (or 5 days 4 hours) and being charged $2.48 seems quite good value.

What's the ping like for the Ireland server, compared to the DCC servers?

Very informative Spaceman ty !

I am not familiar with DCC servers, but all three of my servers were always near the top when filtering for low ping.