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I wonder if the author was trying to compare S3 costs to running your own Nginx on EC2 (which involves other cost than just bandwidth), or to some private datac
by kennu 15y ago
I wonder if the author was trying to compare S3 costs to running your own Nginx on EC2 (which involves other cost than just bandwidth), or to some private datacenter? (Meaning his reference to "taking a huge load off their application servers")
- dotBen 15y agoI think he was comparing S3 to serving the image assets from his application servers, where if he uses a CDN like MaxCDN, the app severs are only used as origin servers and the load is minimal. This assumes you have the disk space on your app servers for ~750gb of data, though. I actually agree with him - we use MaxCDN/NetDNA at WPEngine and they are awesome (although we don't use our app servers as origin servers).
- kennu 15y agoYeah but I didn't quite get if his application servers were on EC2 or not. The usual comparison is Nginx+EC2 vs. S3 vs. CloudFront. (Now the page is down so I can't check again..)