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I spent the whole of last night (Tuesday) reading an article on the Amazon S3 service. Normally when I read an article I read the title, read 80% of the first paragraph, then scan down to half way down the page and ignore the rest. It's not reading per se, but it's sure as hell a lot faster.
The article in question is on a topic that I'm particularly interested in, and brings up some great points about creating a business model based around the S3 service. Because of that I actually read not just the entire thing, but just about every article it links to.
In case you don't know, the S3 service is a very cheap micropayment based online storage system. Amazon promise high bandwidth, secure, reliable and redundant storage. The cost is $0.15 per Gb stored online, plus $0.20 per Gb transferred per month. That's really pretty reasonable... so far..
The author of the article brings up some interesting points about security and safety that are well worth the read. Having read the article I'm slightly less keen to jump on the bandwagon and create a web business around the service, but at the same time I'm enlightened to the possible things that can effect S3 reliant services.
All in all the service sounds great and I'm looking forward to making the most of it. My first plan will be to install JungleDisk, map that to a drive, then move my personal subversion repository there.
The article in question is on a topic that I'm particularly interested in, and brings up some great points about creating a business model based around the S3 service. Because of that I actually read not just the entire thing, but just about every article it links to.
In case you don't know, the S3 service is a very cheap micropayment based online storage system. Amazon promise high bandwidth, secure, reliable and redundant storage. The cost is $0.15 per Gb stored online, plus $0.20 per Gb transferred per month. That's really pretty reasonable... so far..
The author of the article brings up some interesting points about security and safety that are well worth the read. Having read the article I'm slightly less keen to jump on the bandwagon and create a web business around the service, but at the same time I'm enlightened to the possible things that can effect S3 reliant services.
All in all the service sounds great and I'm looking forward to making the most of it. My first plan will be to install JungleDisk, map that to a drive, then move my personal subversion repository there.
posted by nj at
20:28
3 Comments:
That is pretty cool. It'd be a good place to store stuff (photos) that you didn't want to lose, but didn't necessarily need direct access to either. I'm much more confident that Amazon won't lose my stuff than that my external hard drive will continue working forever. Of course, it's pretty easy to imagine having a terabyte of photos (Agnieszka being a good 20% of the way there), which is $150/month.
BTW it's per se rather than per say.
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Anonymous, at 1:28 am
smugmug is a service that already uses S3 for backup (not for primary storage I don't think) which means your backups are safe by proxy, and even multiple flickr accounts to get over the 2Gb / month limit (if that's restrictive) is a good place for backup.
Working out what would be best for hundreds of Gb of photos would be difficult for me - I would have to associate a value for the photos and then work out how much I would want to insure myself for keeping them safe.
A hard drive certainly wouldn't cut the mustard though, unless that was just an archive of everything from which the important stuff was online somewhere already.
Thanks for the grammatical heads up. Improving my English is one of the reasons I want to leave Switzerland. I'm amazed at how much it's degraded.
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nj, at 10:54 am
I don't think your English would improve much in the US.
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Anonymous, at 3:06 pm
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