[thelist] the expense of handling video uploads

Joel D Canfield joel at bizba6.com
Sun Oct 10 14:08:00 CDT 2010


On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Hassan Schroeder <
hassan.schroeder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Check out Amazon AWS or Rackspace Cloud Files or equivalent.
>
> I'm using AWS to store photos for a photography site because the
> site itself is on Heroku (no FS access) and the monthly bill is like:
>
> <quote>
> This e-mail confirms that your latest billing statement is available on the
> AWS web site. Your account will be charged the following:
>
> Total: $0.01
> </quote>
>
> Cloudy goodness --   pay only for what you use, when you use it  :-)


+1

I have hundreds of MB stored, and pay $8 US/month, using their reduced
redundancy storage (only 99.9% availability instead of 99.9999%)

joel


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