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Mobshare is now using Amazon S3 storage for serving all the media uploaded by the users. The decision to move to Amazon happened after a server performance issue. A local daily featured Mobshare and our server couldn’t handle the load and the performance degraded. We lost a lot of new registrations that day because many couldnt sign up as the pages were loading very slow.
Amazon S3 was a easy option to offload the media. After switching to Amazon the server performance has gone up. But then again, Amazon is not a viable option in the long term. The threshold is 300Gb storage, when the amazon costs start exceeding the cost of dedicated content servers.
The future Mobshare will see dedicated content servers hosted in India.
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hey Kenney, Does S3 have hard limits nowadays?
I thought S3 was excellent value.
If i had to bootstrap a technology startup today, I’d probably design the whole thing around the Amazon ecosystem, now that they have persistent storage and Elastic IP feature.
I did some basic math and estimated the costs for an EC2+S3 solution to be less than renting a 2048 VPS from the (i hear) very excellent Slicehost
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