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[nycphp-talk] cheapest and best way to server 1TB worth of data per month

Brian O'Connor gatzby3jr at gmail.com
Sat Dec 26 10:44:32 EST 2009


You may also want to look into using Google App Engine and use that as
a CDN by keeping all of your static files on Google's servers.

Just a thought.

On 12/25/09, Konstantin K <kkrutoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Im seriously considering going with SimpleCDN.  For about $40/month =
> 1TB/month, which isn't too bad and there's no extra server to maintain!
> I'm not sure what the traffic profile will look like, I expect it to be
> steady with some spikes if we get some publicity...
>
> I have the same fear as David, cuz I've had godaddy "transition" my site to
> a bigger server without notifying me and resulting in a 7 day downtime
> because I was using too much resources...
>
> Edward, what are you saying?  You would go with godaddy?
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> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Edward Potter
> <edwardpotter at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> i think the advantage of S3 is now you have to learn S3. That knowledge
>> could be worth millions to your down the road. Think big! I have seen some
>> cloud/iphone integrated code, just about zero wait times to deliver some
>> heavy graphics manipulations over the network.
>>
>>  I was pretty amazed at the speeds.
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>> (PS Godaddy will probably be fine) :-)
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>>   On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Konstantin K <kkrutoi at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>   looks like godaddy has unlimited plan for $15/month! or 1.5TB/month for
>>> $7/month
>>>
>>> any comments on this?
>>>
>>>
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>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Konstantin K <kkrutoi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>
>>>> I need some expert advice.
>>>>
>>>> Let's say I have about 2MB of static data (images, css, js) and I need
>>>> to serve about 1TB worth of it per month to users who visit this site.
>>>>  I know that means at least 500,000 page views per month (not
>>>> considering browsers caching images, etc).
>>>>
>>>> What's the cheapest (but still fast) way to serve 1TB worth of static
>>>> data  per month?
>>>> A) AWS S3
>>>>      I think this comes out to about $180/month.
>>>> B) dedicated server
>>>>      With nginx or lighttpd
>>>>
>>>> C) shared hosting
>>>>      godaddy?
>>>> D) ???
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Konstantin
>>>>
>>>
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