> At this point in time, no. Our business is confined to the US and CAN > so I'm not too worried about people on the other side of the world. I'm > making bet that the latency will be acceptable for this continent. Of > course, please tell if you have found otherwise, or have a really good > reason for me to begin considering cloud front again. Also, it doubled > the price from what I could tell. (Not that it was that expensive to > begin with). However I was vaguely annoyed at the lack of specifics > regarding what bandwidth I have to pay for so I could have been > calculating incorrectly. For instance, someone hits a 5 GB file > through cloud front, so I have to pay for S3 bandwidth as well as cloud > front bandwidth right? (That's where the twice as expensive part comes > in) If I have 5 end points in the US, and someone downloads the file > from each one, would I pay for 10 times the bandwidth of the file > (instead of 5 times) to allow for it to be copied to each end point? > Now my understanding is that is is cached now at the points. So if > someone hits it again from the same end point, do I pay for both > bandwidths again, or just the end point bandwidth. How long is it > cached for? How do I refresh the cache? I quickly ended up with more > questions than answers on the cloud front and it didn't seem worth the > money so I sort of just left it.
My understanding is that you would not have to pay for end-user access to S3 content if you're using Cloudfront. You'd pay for end-user access to that content via Cloudfront, and you'd have to pay the normal S3 upload and storage fees for your own access to your bucket. That said, I would not bet the farm on my understanding here, as I haven't really looked that closely at Cloudfront yet. > Hmm, it would be interesting if Cloud Front solved that, but I don't > know why Cloud Front wouldn't suffer from the same problems that the S3 > domains do. I'm curious why they won't simply let you set up a domain > or subdomain and resolve it to an IP address on their end that was > mapped to your bucket. Then if you own a wild card cert (which we do) > they let you install that cert on their servers so it truly is your > domain and your cert. Of course, all that may very well be easier said > than done. Especially since that would take a lot of IP addresses, and > it would tie you to a specific server on their end. Well, I don't know if it solves that problem or not, but because this service is aimed specifically at HTTP usage for end-users of a web site, I wouldn't be too surprised if they had. S3 really is just general-purpose storage, and just because you get to it via HTTP doesn't mean they've spent a lot of time figuring out how to make it work well for HTTP end-user access. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:328571 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
