Comments on: StartUps Embracing Amazon S3

By: Dave Lawrence

Dave Lawrence — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:11:26 +0000

I know this is an old post, but I'm only now realizing and finding the amazing uses of Amazon S3.

My research now stems from using QNAP NAS boxes that now integrate with S3 for offsite backups.

I'm increasingly becoming intrigued by S3 for Small Business Technology solutions, whether backups, or other applications.

The web is looking pretty snazzy these day.

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Amazon Cuts Prices on S3 [GigaOM - Start-Up News] | Internet Startups — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:31:21 +0000

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Amazon Cuts Prices on S3 - GigaOM — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:47:26 +0000

[...] for data transfers and requests made to the Amazon S3 System. Nevertheless this is still going to save some dollars for start-ups that are using S3 service. The company in making the announcement gave some interesting data [...]

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Amazon Launches Content Delivery Network. Rivals Watch Out! - GigaOM — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:44:06 +0000

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By: Blagovest

Blagovest — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:51:03 +0000

There is a very important question you have to ask yourself before deciding what service to use: what are you really looking for – remote storage, content delivery, or both. These are crucial to distinguish.

What I observe is that most people treat Amazon S3 as a content delivery service. While this is not inherently wrong, one has to notice that S3 was especially designed to be a STORAGE service.

The point is, since terrabyte hard drives are affordable nowadays and internet traffic grows steadily, the stress goes on content delivery rather than on storage. If you are not concerned about storage, there are much better services especially suited for content delivery.

SteadyOffload.com provides an innovative, subtle and convenient way to offload static content. The whole mechanism there is quite different from Amazon S3. Instead of permanently uploading your files to a third-party host, their cachebot crawls your site and mirrors the content in a temporary cache on their servers. Content remains stored on your server while it is being delivered from the SteadyOffload cache. The URL of the cached object on their server is dynamically generated at page loading time, very scrambled and is changing often, so you don’t have to worry about hotlinking. This means that there is an almost non-existent chance that the cached content gets exposed outside of your web application.

It’s definitely worth trying because it’s not a storage service like S3 but exactly a service for offloading static content.

Watch that:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8193919167634099306 (the video shows integration with WordPress, but it is integrable with any other webpage)
http://www.steadyoffload.com/
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization/Offloading

Cost of bandwidth comes under $0.2 per GB – affordable, efficient and convenient. Looks like a startup but lures me very much. Definitely simpler and safer than Amazon S3.

By: Tal Lifschitz

Tal Lifschitz — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:04:39 +0000

The outlook is bright with S3 coming in. I really hope we get more online businesses going, that is the next level now that corporations have taken over. This kind of programs gives more of a chance for the little guys.

Thanks,
Tal Lifschitz,
http://www.cashrichmoney.com

By: Wish-IT, Dream-IT, Do-IT » Blog Archive » Using Amazon S3 as Your Own Personal CDN

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:29:20 +0000

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