Re: alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Tod Hansmann
On 5/20/2010 1:04 PM, Merrill Oveson wrote: > > .15/GB/month so 500GB = $75 per month. > > Anybody know a web based solution that works similarly (I don't need > the added bandwidth, the promise, etc) to S3, only is less expensive, > dare I say .01/GB/month? > > I'm sure that there's somebody

Re: alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Grant Shipley
What about mozy? On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote: > On 05/20/2010 01:29 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: > > You could give S4 a try: > > > > http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ > > Ugh... the site looks real enough to fool some people out of their > money. The site's arrog

Re: alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/20/2010 01:29 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: > You could give S4 a try: > > http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ Ugh... the site looks real enough to fool some people out of their money. The site's arrogance is disgusting. Does Jeremy not know that "write-only" and "write-once" are ofte

Re: alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Jessie Morris
On 5/20/10 2:43 PM, Mr Ritter wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Mr Ritter wrote: > > >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Matthew Walkerwrote: >> >> >>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 2:14 pm, Michael Torrie wrote: >>> On 05/20/2010 01:29 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote:

Re: alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Mr Ritter
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Mr Ritter wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Matthew Walker wrote: > >> >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 2:14 pm, Michael Torrie wrote: >> > On 05/20/2010 01:29 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: >> >> You could give S4 a try: >> >> >> >> http://www.supersimplestorageservic

Re: alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Mr Ritter
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Matthew Walker wrote: > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 2:14 pm, Michael Torrie wrote: > > On 05/20/2010 01:29 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: > >> You could give S4 a try: > >> > >> http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ > > > Quoted from website, "Our market research indi

Re: alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Matthew Walker
On Thu, May 20, 2010 2:14 pm, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 05/20/2010 01:29 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: >> You could give S4 a try: >> >> http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ > > I think just backing up to /dev/null is probably cheaper and quite a bit > faster, since it will all be local data tr

Re: alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Michael Torrie
On 05/20/2010 01:29 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: > You could give S4 a try: > > http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ I think just backing up to /dev/null is probably cheaper and quite a bit faster, since it will all be local data transfer and not over the internet. /dev/null seems to have qui

Re: alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Matthew Walker
> You could give S4 a try: > > http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ Perfect! I'm going to migrate ALL of my data storage to them! -- Matthew Walker HAM Call Sign: KF7JLF Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Li

Re: alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 20 May 2010, at 13:04, Merrill Oveson wrote: > Plug: > > We use S3 a ton. It works great and I love it. > > It has relieved disk space pressure from web and file servers. > > Now, I'm in a situation where I need to archive old data from my file server. > I like how S3 works, the only probl

alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Merrill Oveson
Plug: We use S3 a ton. It works great and I love it. It has relieved disk space pressure from web and file servers. Now, I'm in a situation where I need to archive old data from my file server. I like how S3 works, the only problem is that S3 is too expensive to use just for archival storage.