My rsync appeared to be running at 20+ Mbps to S3 last night... Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 19, 2012, at 21:41, Anurag Bhatia <m...@anuragbhatia.com> wrote: > Nice idea of future! :) > > > Btw as side question - I heard transfer rates from S3 are capped badly. > Something like 5-10Mbps. Is that true? Anyone of you ever came across such > cap? > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Astrodog <astro...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> This gives me an idea. The vending machine could also sell hosting. >>> Sometimes, the box just won't come back to life and you need somewhere >>> to stuff the data. *grin* >> >> How about a vending machine, where you insert a hard drive, swipe your >> card, >> and it either gets vaulted to S3 or an EC2 intance is spawned on the >> cloud, and the data on the drive becomes the instance's boot media and >> gets streamed to the instance storage over a 10-gigabit connection >> from the vending machine, until all the data's uploaded. >> >> That solves the problem of end users getting their data to the hosting >> provider quickly, with no need to stress out their low-speed WAN. >> >> -- >> -JH >> >> > > > -- > > Anurag Bhatia > anuragbhatia.com > or simply - http://[2001:470:26:78f::5] if you are on IPv6 connected > network! > > Twitter: @anurag_bhatia <https://twitter.com/#!/anurag_bhatia> > Linkedin: http://linkedin.anuragbhatia.com
