[PLUG] Home server to Amazon S3

Andrew Brookins a.m.brookins at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 14:45:30 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:51 AM, wes<plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
> I use EC2 and S3 at my company. It is pretty much like you describe. The
> cheapest EC2 instance is $72/mo plus bandwidth usage.
>
> S3 is great for cheap storage, as long as that's ALL you need - storage. If
> you need URL rewriting or any other interesting features, S3 is not is.
>
> For personal use, I have the cheapest Slicehost option for $20/mo and it
> works just fine.
>
> -wes

Thanks for the lead on Slicehost.  I'm also checking out OpenHosting's
Linux KVM option, which looks pretty sweet.  Both are about the same
cost at $20/mo. for the level I'd need.  Considerably cheaper than
EC2.

Andrew



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