Comments on: Amazon S3 Pricing Explained

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:19:04 +0000

That's what I would end up using it for. Large files like zips or podcasts. Or if I was starting a project that would require storing vast amounts of user-submitted images (e.g. avatars, if we didn't already have the marvelous Gravatar.).

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:47:46 +0000

I have been using S3 since last summer for images. I rarely use it now for images on new posts because the price each month was getting out of control. It's a good service and is nice to take a load off the server, but in my situation it was costing more than it was worth. I still have a lot of images on S3 and they'll probably stay there forever, but I only use it now when I have something of a large file size, like a zip file.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:50:34 +0000

I'd jump right on it and sign up if they took PayPal, but I don't believe they do… I will consider it in the future though, for this or that.

By: Blaine Moore

Blaine Moore — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:10:10 +0000

I've been using S3 for about a year now and it's great. Way better performance than my servers can handle for my media files, and so cheap that I barely notice the cost.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:59:16 +0000

I'm not using S3 personally at this time, though it's something I have been considering trying sometime in the coming months. I may try your software then, if I do end up signing up for S3. It certainly looks full-featured.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:42:42 +0000

I always enjoy learning how other people employ Amazon S3 online storage. I am wondering if you can check out my very own tool CloudBerry Explorer that helps to manage S3 on Windows . It is a freeware. http://cloudberrylab.com/