Side-tracking? sorry... AWS S3 worth it? Depends what you need/want to do! At a mass-arhival level of 100-500GB, I believe that mass storage is still much cheaper on (or under) the desktop.
Here are the Amazon Web Services S3 prices: > Storage > $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used > > Data Transfer > $0.10 per GB - all data transfer in $0.15 x 100 GB = $15/month (plus another $10 to upload) $0.15 x 500 GB = $75/month (plus another $50 to upload) This is clearly priced for on-demand net media, not archival and backup. You can store a lot of photos in a few gigs, don't get me wrong, and this is a great deal it. But with 5-12MP cameras and 1-5MP cell cams, space gets chewed up fast. Monthlies can hurt. As of this writing, a 500GB external drive can be had for $135-$150 easily: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150414+4803+131021357&name=400GB+-+750GB You may say that running the drive, the noise or the power is an issue, but WTH about relying on your ISP just so you can access your own data. Now if you are providing the stored data to some website, networked device, etc, then great, thats what this is made for (high availability, more or less). Just want to clear the air around this, on a concrete "numbers" level :) ciao, ben PS - did I get this right? I think it is a good deal, for the right application, possibly. On a somewhat-related note, mosso.com and mediatemple.com's dpv both appear to be doing sorts of dedicated/virtualized hosting, but I think mosso is doing a more truly load-balanced, clustered system, although it is hard to find out about much under the hood (although they harken from rackspace). Mediatemple appears to be all open-source-based which is great, and they also have a cool grid service ("gs") that you'll want to check out as a storage option ($20/mo for 100GB, with which you also get to host up to 100 sites, 1000 email accounts, run LAMP & small ruby/mongrel apps, etc). Dang, looks neat! http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/details.htm _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
