michi bloggt!

-> http://aws.amazon.com/s3
-> http://unicast.org/archives/004073.html [via lng]

Truly amazing! And very competitive prices.

• $0.15 per stored GB per month
• $0.20 per transferred GB

With €0.16 per GB the traffic costs are even lower than Hetzner's €0.19. So that's a definitive win for amazon.

Regarding the storage prices, the situation is not that clear. 1 GB of stored data will cost you 1.5€ per year at amazon. Mmh, a SATA harddisk costs about 0.5€ per GB, once. Let's say we double that for backup, add some additional RAID fault-tolerance, add the necessary hardware around all that, and we still will remain somewhat short of 1.5€ per GB (still just one-time costs). But as soon as we start considering personnnel expenses for maintaining the hardware (and software as MogileFS), resp consider the fact that amazon's cost scale perfectly along with your demand (no setup fees, no sunken costs), and that you never pay for any unused storage, then amazon should also win this comparison within this respect.

Getting started with S3 is dead simple with a command line tool named jSh3ll:
-> http://jroller.com/page/silvasoftinc
-> http://www.theserverside.com/...thread_id=39613

Check this out:
-> http://s3.amazonaws.com/michi/
-> http://s3.amazonaws.com/michi/helloworld
-> http://s3.amazonaws.com/michi/test.jpg
-> http://s3.amazonaws.com/michi/test.jpg?torrent (a bittorrent seed!)

So, maybe we will seriously start considering this option. And if the only reason is, that I am just fed up with sitting in between loud & noisy racks :-) Oh, and speaking of traffic costs. I hope our newest Knallgrau baby, the freshly launched videoblog for mini, does not become any successful at all. The hetzner bill just gets higher and higher :-)
-> http://www.vlogbymini.de/