I did some sums on this, with a view to using S3 to deliver some images and video.
I pay around £15/mbps for my bandwidth (in the UK, its less elsewhere). 1mbps = ~320Gb/month transfer 320Gb transfer with S3 = $64 = £32. About twice the price. Of course I'm not factoring in storage costs - and its not to say S3 isn't very interesting. Is it right to call it a CDN? CDNs traditionally have multiple nodes right? Is it more likely that people are 'closer' to S3 than another other network? J -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Dillon Sent: 01 February 2007 17:39 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Hosting (Slightly OT) James Cridland wrote: > On 1/30/07, *Davy Mitchell* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Thought this might be the ideal crowd... > > I am looking for a free (or cheap) hosting for MP3 files for my > various auto-generated podcasts such as Mood News and > comp.lang.python. > > Not free, but certainly very, very cheap and hellishly reliable: Amazon S3. > www.amazon.com/s3 <http://www.amazon.com/s3> For you it's especially > useful, since it comes BitTorrent enabled > automatically: perfect for BitTorrent-enabled clients. I'd agree with James here, the S3 network is very interesting, very cheap $0.20 per GB bandwidth and $0.15 per GB of storage per month. It's massively scalable, extremely resilient and the built in BitTorrent seeding functionality is very good. I've been experimenting with this and frankly it puts other CDNs into the shade on both cost and ease of access. Seán - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
