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Maybe my math is off or something. But according to the S3 calc: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html If
by rishi 18y ago
Maybe my math is off or something. But according to the S3 calc: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
If a 150MB is downloaded 100 times it would cost $2.59.
If it was downloaded 1000 times it would cost $25.55.
Is that cheap?
- ropiku 18y agoCompared to the cost of building and maintaining your own system I think it is cheaper. Add the cost of servers, colocation, bandwidth, people. Also, on S3 you pay exactly for what you use, if you use your own server you are paying for them up front. Another bonus is the using their CDN if you have frequently downloaded files. Check this comment by Don MacAskill, CEO of SmugMug which stores a huge amount of data on S3: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=422574 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=422574. Check his blog too: http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/tag/s3 http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/tag/s3.
- moe 18y agoNot cheap but reasonable. They pushed 1.5T of traffic for you at that point.
- mikeyur 18y agoIf you're going on a base10 system then it's only 150GB, not 1.5TB. Technically it's 146.5GB.
- moe 18y agoArgh, you are right, off by a magnitude. Well, I'll try to make up for it by pointing the original asker to http://simplecdn.com http://simplecdn.com From their frontpage: A software developer with 100MB worth of downloads would pay $24.90 for lifetime storage, and would then receive a transfer rate of 3.9 cents per GB. So, pay $24.90 once and serve your 1000 downloads for $5.80 then.
- aaronblohowiak 18y agoCloudfront!