> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM, George Abraham > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I could look, but what does S3's usage policy say about that kind of > > offloading? > > This use case is exactly the point of S3's existence. It's redundant, > scalable, and ridiculously inexpensive.
OK, I got off my butt and actually read through some of the stuff. Pretty impressive. > > Does that also mean that the application now also has to > > maintain assets in 2 different places? Some of my users would really balk > at > > that. But an intriguing suggestion, nonetheless. > > Well, it'd be one place, on S3. No need to keep them on your > infrastructure at all. There are privacy concerns, for sure, but > again, S3 is designed for this use case. If the perception that > Amazon's IT team is less trustworthy than the IT team at wherever your > servers are located, can't help you there. ;) Hehehe, you got that right. The key there is the word 'perception.' Thanks, George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307112 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
