Anyone come up with a reason to use this instead of the infinitely easier Flickr Pro account, with unlimited storage and bandwidth?
How to store a file with more then 5 mb size in Amazone S3 services?
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There are many other CDN’s worth a look. http://www.LocalMirror.com/ for example… http://www.speedera.com/ and others.
For all the bloggers (and podcasters) out there, I have created a plugin that will allow you to easily use Amazon S3 with your WordPress blog. File uploads are transparently saved into your Amazon S3 bucket, and you can browse and manage your bucket all from within the WordPress admin screens.
Amazon s3 seems to be a great way to host image files. But I’m curious to know what measures can be taken to prevent file leeching from a publicly accessible bucket. Does anyone know of a way?
Hey,
This was very helpful…I scratched my head a bit trying to read through all the amazon stuff, and your post just made my day. THANKS!
Jeff, what was your verdict after using this for a few months? Looking at your current posts, I don’t see any s3 hosted images.
Thanks for the quick reply.
The site I’m considering using it on has relatively low traffic, but must store gigabytes worth of photos (many of which are never even accessed). So, transactional costs shouldn’t be a problem. Paying for gigabytes of ever expanding hosted disk space is killing the site owner though.
Was the performance satisfactory? Reading through the comments here, I’m a little bit worried about that.
Hi Dave,
I still like S3, but the change in billing to per-request in addition to per-megabyte was an expensive one for me. I’ve slowly been phasing it out for cost reasons, and moving towards having a dedicated host somewhere.
My read on aws and we do use it is better reliability. We use to use 1and1.com but they really screwed us several time in the past year after years of flawless service leaving us no other choice than to find a reliable solution for our customers. While the go daddy’s of the year may be cheaper I think we will stick with aws, although it could be easier to use. Amazon needs to write some tools. URL mapping is confusing.
Our main company website is hosted at 1and1 and it was down for 5 days so far this year. We also have a Unix server and windows 2003 server at 1and1.com, 1and1 modified their Unix delivery screwing up our server and telling us to upgrade … yah off to amazon. Now all we need to do is figure out ec3.
BTW - 1and1 was our 6th provider in the past 13 years. Hopefully AWS will be our last.
Although all of my family sites are on 1and1 … who cares if you cannot see photos of the kids for a few days.
FYI I’ve posted “s3fs” which allows you to mount (via fuse) an Amazon S3 bucket as a local filesystem read/write… a href="http://code.google.com/p/s3fs"http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/a
You may also review valuecdn.com their pricing does look very compelling. At 9 euro cents per gig it’s almost the 1/2 of S3. I hope to test them out… any feedback from existing clients ?
I think someone mentioned speedera, which has been an akamai property for an internet age.
Hi Jeff
Do you have a follow-up to this article? It appears that you did not end up using S3 for your blog.
Thanks for the S3Fox tip! I’m really loving the fact that most of the api is abstracted into a gem for ruby developers which lets us get on and BUILD STUFF, but sometimes, you just need something simple which works.
tony, he already wrote in this discussion why S3 was dropped.
Shared hosting accounts have limits in short they are not meant for heavy use, files like video, pictures, and audio are heavy traffic. Please don’t compared the storage provided by Dreamhost to S3, the two are very different so far S3 has no limitations an does what is meant to do pretty good (store/distribute). For those of you that believe that a hosting account from other providers is a better solution then you have no idea of the limitation in CPU cycles among other limitation by those providers. By the way latency not only happens on S3 side, check your own connection.
S3 was meant for developers and people that can make the best from the service, its all up to us.
I didn’t see any replies by anyone regarding the “leeching” question. I am building a Rail app/site that will be storing personal user images and I want to somehow “protect” them from being viewed unless viewed via my sites’ application. I’ve been google’ing for info on this but haven’t had any luck. I also can’t seem to find anything about this on the S3 site. Anyone?