Comments on: My First Impressions of Amazon S3

By: Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:56:01 +0000

I wrote s3:// (another s3 extension for firefox) – which was just approved by Mozilla – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6955

I like S3Fox for some tasks and mine for others. Best of luck with your journey into S3.

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By: BlogBuzz September 13, 2008 | Webmaster-Source

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By: Webmaster Guy

Webmaster Guy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:45:25 +0000

I just got an account with them an will be trying their services with a new website made specially to sell amazon products.
This looks like a good service for a cheap price which is hard to find nowadays on the www.

By: Vandelay Design

Vandelay Design — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:37:41 +0000

Jacob,
It’s pretty easy if you know what to expect. I didn’t know much about the service when I signed up, then fortunately I found the post at Coding Horror and was up and running pretty quickly.

By: Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:25:00 +0000

Wow I just got S3 setup within 10minutes, really easy to use! Gonna test it out on a massive image post.

By: Vandelay Design

Vandelay Design — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:52:37 +0000

Jacob,
SliceHost is very impressive based on Six Revisions. I would have gone with them a long time ago but there servers aren’t managed and that’s not something I want to deal with at this point.

Matthew,
That’s true. But switching hosts won’t always force you to change the images. I changed hosts before using S3 and had no problems, just uploaded the same image folder.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:01:24 +0000

We are very happy with S3 and lucky to never experience a downtime so far. We don’t have many traffic peaks, but when they occur, they are really heavy.

By: Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:14:30 +0000

I have been using S3 on my site, but it does not get anywhere near the amount of traffic you get. My last bill was $0.04.

One feature that was not mentioned above that I like is portability. I like the idea that I can switch hosts on a whim and not have to worry about transferring all my images.

By: Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:35:02 +0000

Jacob from SixRevisions uses http://www.slicehost.com and his articles are always on the front page, for example he has 3 articles on the front page of design even now and he still survives. There is a good community and support there as well.

FDCServers has the cheapest VPS’s and has got very good reviews (I have been enquring on forums).
http://www.fdcservers.net/Services/VirtualDedicatedServers/VPSVDSPlans#s103

JCD is using about 20GB a day so I need somewhere that can hold that and the two sites above do that and for a good price.