On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:39:29 -0700, "Gabriel Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Does anyone use S3 from Amazon for backing up data off-site or serving > static files? It's pretty darn cheap, requires no hardware, scales, can > do HTTP and BitTorrent and a bunch of other cool things. > > http://aws.amazon.com/s3 > > Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up > cost. > > * $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used. > * $0.20 per GB of data transferred. > > That's WAY cheaper far better then building my own RAIDed (and redundant > in every other way) server, paying for a colo and bandwidth in some > beefy data center and still having to admin it myself.
Here's a couple good articles on S3: http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2006/11/10/amazon-s3-show-me-the-money/ http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2006/12/06/cachefly-vs-amazon-s3/ Part of the disparity in their conclusions, of course, is that the smugmug guys have a much different use case than mochimedia. But I wonder if they've had more downtime in the last month, since Bob cites reliability as one problem he had. -Jonathan -- C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. --Scott McKay /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
