Questions for People Hosting File Servers/Sites

[Dragon45]

This is directed at people hosting tons of files - unknown-files.net's successors mostly.

Would there be any advantage in your hosting your websites using Amazon Web Services? So for example, either hosting the servers off of EC2, or storing the files off of S3, or some combination of the two?

One of the nice things about S3 is that any files stored on it can be made publicly accessible, and every file stored on it is automatically converted into a fully tracked torrent if you attempt to access it as such.

And of course with EC2, it's easy to add or remove machine instances as you see it.

For example, suppose you store SpeedMetal.smf in S3; if i access s3.amazon.com/springbucket/SpeedMetal.smf i get the file normally, but if i go to s3.amazon.com/springbucket/SpeedMetal.smf?torrent, i automatically get a torrent for that file. S3 automatically hosts the tracker itself.


Just wondering if your needs are well served by the dedicated hardware setups you're using now, how many headaches they're causing (if any), etc.

Edit: Oh btw, here's a calculator that gives estimates of how much a month's worth of services would cost.

[Forboding Angel]

$0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out


Would cost us 170 bucks a month if not more.

Considering I got my host for 128 per year with a 5tb transfer limit per month......

[AF]

I've already prepaid 3 years and Ive gained almost 2TB extra bandwidth per month out of loyalty alone. Bandwidth caps could surpass double digits within the year and triple by the end of the 3 years.

Eitherway amazon would boot us off for trying to host TA content

[Dragon45]

AF: How much net $$$ are you ending paying (and in what currency?)

<--- curious dragon

[Forboding Angel]

he's paying less than I am per year.

prolly around 90 - 100 bucks I imagine