DISQUS

AccMan TalkBack: Storage or backup?

  • David Tebbutt · 3 years ago
    So you're a man who's comfortable knowing that Telefonica sits between you and your valuable information?

    Cripes. They must be reliable.
  • David Tebbutt · 3 years ago
    Me again. Just been reading about Amazon's S3 storage service.

    * Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up cost
    * $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
    * $0.20 per GB of data transferred

    I recently (on another website) started getting 20gb+/day downloads. It only lasted a few days but the one thing we needed was a service provider that could expand to cope with the demand rather than penalise us by shutting us down.

    I'd much rather have bunged Amazon a few dollars than lose the people who were denied access to us during the downtime.

    This service seems ideal for people who have no idea how popular their bulky online materials (podcasts, program files, shared work in progress) are going to be.