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   How to host your site on S3 for $0.12/month(blog.shopforcloud.com)

   3 points by akh 14y ago|1 comments
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   by akh 14y ago

   I don't think it's as simple as saying "Rackspace is better bang for buck in CPU terms". This is a complicated area and one which is being researched at universities. See [1] for one such research project, which mentions that there is even
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   by akh 14y ago

   Good point, we didn't actually run the tests. We're planning on expanding our focus beyond just cost to include performance and features of the clouds as well.
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   by akh 14y ago

   Agreed, here's more evidence of the cost differences: http://blog.shopforcloud.com/2012/02/holy-cow-rackspace-uk-c... You can use http://www.ShopForCloud.com to do other similar comparisons.
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   by akh 14y ago

   > Also, you get more CPU bang for your buck. I'm not sure this is necessarily true. We did a recent study and found RAX costs almost double for our example web app: http://blog.shopforcloud.com/2012/02/holy-cow-rackspace-uk-c...
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   by akh 14y ago

   Vimeo doesn't have a time restriction, their free version has a 500MB/week upload limit (1 video/week), which should be more than enough for this: http://vimeo.com/join
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   by akh 14y ago

   Thanks Alex. I guess you're planning on uploading it as 3x 10min clips on YouTube?
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   The cost of getting popular(blog.shopforcloud.com)

   2 points by akh 14y ago|0 comments
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   Ask HN: how do you estimate your cloud costs?

   1 points by akh 15y ago|0 comments
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    by akh 15y ago

    We're almost done updating over 2,000 prices from AWS clouds: http://blog.shopforcloud.com/2012/03/were-updating-over-2000... You might prefer to use ShopForCloud.com to get cost estimates rather than use Excel spreadsheets. They have a
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    by akh 15y ago

    I guess the fact that Rackspace UK charges in GPB doen't help either, AWS EU charges in USD so the exchange rates work in their favour as well when comparing costs.
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    The Rackspace UK cloud would be twice more expensive than AWS EU for our web app(blog.shopforcloud.com)

    7 points by akh 15y ago|0 comments