It would be interesting to go back through the Everpix post mortem docs[1] and see if a big price swing like this could have put them in the black (or close to it). [1] https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence
A miss is as good as a mile.
Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
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This is very hard for them to do. For example, what if you have set up a bunch of auto-scaling instances to handle heavy load. During the middle of the night, your application suddenly goes viral in Indonesia or Brazil or some other large country in a different timezone from yours. Your bill goes over its threshold - what does Amazon do? Do they terminate some of your instances (potentially losing production data!)?…
> Do they terminate some of your instances (potentially losing production data!)? If you have opted in for the "don't let me spend more than $x," then yes.
I'd second that! It's not complicated, especially for smaller entities. "I'll use your services, but don't go
over ths amount; without authorization." If my wiz, bang app, website has that much potential--I'll get the money to
you. I don't want to wake up to a big bill. To be honest,
if they were very clear about pricing, and stop/loss orders; I think more people would sign up. It's about honesty, and
a minimizing the variables. Oh, and fire any MBA advisors;
they think they are slick, but your average dude us starting to look at the fine print, and has become very sensitive to
being taken advantage of. By the way, off topic, but relevant. I looked into esurance. Very good price. Then
I realized the premium was only fir six months. I always wondered how they could afford all those rediculous commercials.
Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
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In my opinion they're doing that on purpose to discourage people from using S3 as both a storage and a transfer method. Storage and Delivery should be considered separate, as there are benefits to it being a separate service. If you throw a CDN between your customers and S3 you'll not only get a significantly lower cost, you'll also give your customers much better performance.
In that case, where's the price drop on Cloudfront?
Personally I would not use the Amazon CDN. It's not as cost effective as others, and CDN services are basically commodified at this point.
Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#144Storage is cheap, but data transfer out is still $0.12/GB, over 10x more expensive than other options.
I hesitate to even post, as offsite backup is very different than the use case for S3, but we're the opposite...
That is, our storage is expensive (10c per GB, per month, with the HN-new-customer discount) but our usage/transfwer costs are zero.
related:
ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd get s3://rsynctest/mscdex.exe
Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
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I'd recommend Arq (a great backup product for OS X). It requires some technical chops to setup, but I doubt that would be a problem for you (or other people on HN). http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/
This seems to be for backing up workstations. I have that covered already with TimeMachine and Ubuntu's backup services to the NAS box. Now I just need to back up the NAS itself. Thanks for the suggestion though.
You can back up your NAS to rsync.net.
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This seems to be for backing up workstations. I have that covered already with TimeMachine and Ubuntu's backup services to the NAS box. Now I just need to back up the NAS itself. Thanks for the suggestion though.
You can back up your NAS to rsync.net.
I could but for $1800/year I could also build at least 8 redundant NAS boxes with 2TB storage and stick them at my friend's houses. I could also just pay $180/year for S3. Your offering is VERY expensive though I am sure quality is top notch.
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In that case, where's the price drop on Cloudfront?
Personally I would not use the Amazon CDN. It's not as cost effective as others, and CDN services are basically commodified at this point.
Would you happen to have recommendations for other CDN services?
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#149This must be an incredible benefit to companies like Imgur or Dropbox where a significant portion of their costs must be S3 storage.
Benefit to them, doubt we'll ever see the savings in the case of Dropbox
Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
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BackBlaze is pretty popular with the HN crowd and their pricing is still $5 a month for unlimited backup space.
Back blaze is out for two reasons: no Linux support and unlimited backups. I want to know exactly how much storage I can use up before hitting some abuse policy.
Isnt backblaze unlimited storage? I thought that was their main feature.