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Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, S3, is quite wonderful. It’s cheap, secure and virtually infinite in storage capacity. Some people have begun utilizing S3 to host files for their website that would otherwise be expensive in bandwidth costs to serve from their own server. I actually used to host all static template images on this blog from Amazon S3 as I was under the impression that it would decrease load time considerably. [click to continue…]

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There’s no doubt about it, I’m in love with the cloud. Some people might not share my fascination with storage-in-the-cloud and compute-in-the-cloud models but I can’t wait to have the same computing experience regardless of the computer or device I’m using to connect to the Internet. I’ve taken it upon myself to [click to continue…]

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This post suggestion has been sitting in my Skribit account for a while so I thought I would finally address it. S3 is Amazon’s developer-aimed online storage solution. In recent years, consumer-friendly applications and tools have added support for Amazon S3, [click to continue…]

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Amazon EC2 is among the more potent items in Amazon’s web services arsenal. You’ve probably heard of many of the other services such as S3 for storage and FPS for payments. EC2 is all about the “elastic compute cloud.” In layman’s terms, it’s a server. In slightly less layman’s terms, EC2 lets you easily run [click to continue…]

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Here I am, the night before Christmas, thinking about what I’m going to do with the high-definition camcorder I bought myself. Naturally, I am going to use it to share some HD video on this site to spice up reviews and so on. The problem lies in how to get that large amount of content from the server to your display. [click to continue…]

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How To: Amazon S3 + Torrents

September 27, 2007

While I have seen a few mentions of Amazon S3 supporting BitTorrent tracking and file-sharing, I don’t think it has been a well publicized feature. PSTAM reader Carlton Bale wrote a great guide for getting Amazon S3 to create a torrent for a file of yours on S3 and seed the file. He goes through [...]

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First Impressions: Amazon MP3 Beta

September 25, 2007

First it was video with Amazon Unbox, now the online retailer giant is venturing into digital music sales with Amazon MP3. Here’s the real kicker – all songs are DRM-free, encoded at 256 kilobits per second and priced from 89 cents to 99 cents each, with most albums costing $8.99. In comparison this is considerably [...]

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Transmit Gets S3 Support

August 31, 2007

Transmit, my favorite FTP client for OS X, can now connect to Amazon S3 accounts. I never saw this coming but it only makes sense with more and more people using the affordable S3 as a static file host and personal file server. This quite literally makes my day, thank you Cabel and crew.

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Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Amazon’s New FPS

August 4, 2007

Amazon has been highly-regarded in the developer circles over the past year with solutions that take advantage of Amazon’s scale and pass the savings down to the developer. S3 and EC2 (like S3 but for scalable servers) have been widely adopted by coders for utter reliability, cost and not having

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How To: Bulletproof Server Backups with Amazon S3

July 29, 2007

I normally try to avoid server/unix jargon on this blog but as you can tell I have become infatuated with Amazon’s affordable storage solution, S3, as of late. We all know that it is important to keep recent backups of anything you value at all, so why not automate the process? Until I started tinkering [...]

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How To: Optimize Your Site with Image Sprites

July 25, 2007

With my last few posts on website optimization, one of the larger areas of focus was reducing HTTP requests. By reducing the number of requests your browser must make to retrieve all of your website, you speed up your site’s loading time with less overall HTTP latency for requests.

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On Being a Website Performance Junkie

July 17, 2007

When it comes to high-performance, speed and optimization, I’m there. I have written several articles about this subject in the past with 5 Ways to Speed Up Your Site, How To: Optimize Your CSS Even More and a brief look into image maps to reduce HTTP calls and bandwidth usage. However, similar to modifying a [...]

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How To: Be a Tech Consultant for Small Businesses

December 20, 2006

Tech consulting has become a thriving industry for several key reasons. First off, there are many businesses devoid of any direction to establish an efficient workflow. It only takes a few steps for small businesses to effectively utilize currently available online technologies and services. Unfortunately, similar to SEO work, technical consulting can be very expensive [...]

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Why I Started Using Amazon S3

October 7, 2006

I have been tracking Amazon S3 ever since it was announced back in March. S3 is an innovative, developer-oriented Simple Storage Service with extremely low prices – 15 cents per gig stored, 20 cents per gig transferred monthly. Jeremy Zawodny has written a comprehensive piece on how cost effective S3 is compared to maintaining his [...]

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Amazon S3 – Simple Storage Service

March 15, 2006

With all the hype surrounding online storage services such as Box.net, Amazon has decided to get in the game with their new service S3, Simple Storage Service. Before I go any further, I must say that S3 isn’t aimed at the same market as Box.net. S3 integrates well with REST and SOAP interfaces [...]

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