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With AWS i don't have to buy, set up, maintain or upgrade the hardware... or manage employees who do. Nor do i own the hardware. Nor do i have to travel to
by donna 18y ago
With AWS i don't have to buy, set up, maintain or upgrade the
hardware... or manage employees who do. Nor do i own the hardware. Nor do i have to travel to and from a datacenter.
For that service, the cost is very reasonable.
- trezor 18y agoThis goes for any hosting service and not just AWS as long as we are not talking about VPSes though. I just did the math on what using S3 instead of my current business class shared hosting plan would cost me for one of my audio streaming sites. I have around 10-15GBs of data which gets rotated regularly, so nothing is kept around for longer than around two months. With the amount of traffic I get, around 70GBs per month, and the number hits I get, I still pay less for my business class shared hosting plan than I would pay for S3. And I also have full shell access and scriptability. To top it off my plan actually covers 1TB traffic a month, so my site could scale up to 12 times traffic-wise before I would need to upgrade my account. At that cross-over point Amazon S3 would still be 54% more expensive than my current solution. This might not apply to everyone, but in my case getting S3 would be plain dumb.