Doesn't work on my phone. I am used to seeing slider controls that don't support dragging on touchscreens, but these don't appear to support the fallback of tapping a point on the scale to move the slide to that point.
A simplified S3 pricing page
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Re: A simplified S3 pricing page
#22Maybe you could add in price comparisons to Dropbox, since they are just an S3 reseller.
I think they are a bit more than just a reseller.
Re: A simplified S3 pricing page
#23Maybe you could add in price comparisons to Dropbox, since they are just an S3 reseller.
I think they are a bit more than just a reseller.
Perhaps you could expand on that?
If you pay for Dropbox what exactly are you paying for? Software to communicate with S3?
I'll accept that the software (python+rsync+an icon) is arguably "value added", but for the paying Dropbox user, what they are getting is still S3 storage.
Am I missing something?
Re: A simplified S3 pricing page
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they are a bit more than just a reseller.
Perhaps you could expand on that? If you pay for Dropbox what exactly are you paying for? Software to communicate with S3? I'll accept that the software (python+rsync+an icon) is arguably "value added", but for the paying Dropbox user, what they are getting is still S3 storage. Am I missing something?
my dad loves dropbox. he would be lost with s3. for most people it's not "arguably value added"; it's the difference between possible and not.
(another vote for a log scale (or something equivalent, like a separate "units" that sets the scale to 1s, 10s, 100s...). also, the tick marks should be on reasonable, round values)
Re: A simplified S3 pricing page
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they are a bit more than just a reseller.
Perhaps you could expand on that? If you pay for Dropbox what exactly are you paying for? Software to communicate with S3? I'll accept that the software (python+rsync+an icon) is arguably "value added", but for the paying Dropbox user, what they are getting is still S3 storage. Am I missing something?
You're paying for a service that auto syncs your data across multiple devices efficiently and keeps versioned backups of everything.
The fact that they currently use s3 for storage is an implementation detail.
Re: A simplified S3 pricing page
#26Busy with work through this weekend most likely.. feel free to submit a pull request for log scaling: https://github.com/kevindavis/s3-pricing
Will obviously give credit..
Re: A simplified S3 pricing page
#27Can you open source the code? I can use it.
https://github.com/kevindavis/s3-pricing note, it was largely adapted from the pricing page on database.com
This was a wholesale scrape:
https://github.com/kevindavis/s3-pricing/blob/master/public/...
Why do you have the database.com logo in your repo?
Re: A simplified S3 pricing page
#28Wow! S3 is really expensive.
Expensive is relative. 12 cents/GB/month for %99.999999999 reliability is cheap in my opinion.
Re: A simplified S3 pricing page
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps you could expand on that? If you pay for Dropbox what exactly are you paying for? Software to communicate with S3? I'll accept that the software (python+rsync+an icon) is arguably "value added", but for the paying Dropbox user, what they are getting is still S3 storage. Am I missing something?
You're paying for a service that auto syncs your data across multiple devices efficiently and keeps versioned backups of everything. The fact that they currently use s3 for storage is an implementation detail.
So basically it's the same as rsync and a little scripting, but without commands and scriptability? I don't use Dropbox so I'm curious. I'd like to know if they're offering something to paying customers that S3 does not, apart from their particular combination of python and rsync. If we just focus on storage is Dropbox more expensive? If yes, by how much? I think this is a valid question.
Re: A simplified S3 pricing page
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps you could expand on that? If you pay for Dropbox what exactly are you paying for? Software to communicate with S3? I'll accept that the software (python+rsync+an icon) is arguably "value added", but for the paying Dropbox user, what they are getting is still S3 storage. Am I missing something?
my dad loves dropbox. he would be lost with s3. for most people it's not "arguably value added"; it's the difference between possible and not. (another vote for a log scale (or something equivalent, like a separate "units" that sets the scale to 1s, 10s, 100s...). also, the tick marks should be on reasonable, round values)
Right. And the topic of this thread is a price matrix for S3. Presumably your Dad is not going to be looking at it.