S3 makes website hosting reasonable again?

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S3 makes website hosting reasonable again?

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I keep hearing from friends each month about how Amazon’s S3 is making website hosting reasonable for regular folks – here’s another example from one of MAKE’s kit makers –

Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) isn’t new, but its certainly gaining traction. Its a wonderful product for people who have a lot of content on their site (images, video, downloads, pdfs) but not a lot of money. Data storage costs $0.15 per GB-Month (prorated), and $0.20 per GB. No minimums, rounded up to the nearest cent.

…OK so, what’s the point and what does this have to do with electronics, eh? Well one of the killer apps of open source and public domain electronics is documentation. That means media. And media storage, backup and transfer is extremely expensive for the everyday person. It becomes increasingly difficult to host a project when one digg-storm or slashdotting makes that ‘free’ webpage account go down.

S3 makes website hosting reasonable again – Link.

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