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Amazon S3 is actually relatively expensive. It's far cheaper in the long run to host it on your own server. However, if you don't have experience setting up sca
by antiform 18y ago
Amazon S3 is actually relatively expensive. It's far cheaper in the long run to host it on your own server. However, if you don't have experience setting up scalable systems, tuning your configuration, or do not want to spend time doing that type of sysadmin stuff, it can be a good way to save time. It's like buying Coke at a vending machine instead of at a wholesale store. You're paying for the convenience more than anything else. Just be aware of how much you're being marked up.
- jgalvez 18y agoYep. Someone needs to build a S3-like solution and open source it, down to the cluster setup and harddrive specs and brand names. I have set up a storage cluster once with mogilefs and perlbal but finding documentation was a nightmare. There is none, you have to dig through the mailing-list archives. But then again, that is the kind of stuff that people get paid ridiculous amounts of money to build, heck, I know I did. So I wouldn't bet on it. But if I had the time I would probably do it.