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Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

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Post by kevindavis » Sat, Sep 15, 2012, 5:10 AM UTC

niggler wrote: post #27

kevindavis wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yup - downloaded the database.com pricing page to start and hadn't gotten to removing unused images etc. removed this and some other stuff.

There is definitely still a whack of CSS that doesn't apply :)

Thanks!

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

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Post by richardkeller » Sat, Sep 15, 2012, 7:10 AM UTC

m-i wrote: post #15

Wow! S3 is really expensive.

Compared to what? I'm very curious to find out alternatives that are cheaper than Amazon.

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

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Post by res0nat0r » Sat, Sep 15, 2012, 8:22 AM UTC

I don't know why most people don't just use the official AWS calculator. http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

Sure it's not web 2.0 and ajaxy but it supports almost every single service and is easy to use.

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

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Post by jkaljundi » Sat, Sep 15, 2012, 8:23 AM UTC

Took me a while to understand this is not about the world's best mobile phone :)

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

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Post by statictype » Sat, Sep 15, 2012, 11:51 AM UTC

_suoiruc wrote: post #29

statictype wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you just focus on storage, yes, Dropbox is more expensive.

But this is kind of like saying iOS is just an expensive closed variant of FreeBSD.

Since I'm not drawing a salary from Dropbox's marketing division, I'm not going to go in depth here but I'll just say that Dropbox can be used easily and efficiently by normal people who have never seen a command line. Whereas your home brew python+rsync scripts can only be used by nerds like us.

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

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Post by hippich » Sat, Sep 15, 2012, 2:30 PM UTC

For me complex part is S3 pricing is IO requests. I have no clue how many requests expect. If you could find approximate values and make a list like: Webpage (1000 Read requests and 10 Write requests), Web Application (10000 read and 10000 write), etc. Or some other way to get an idea of what it should be approximately...

That's my biggest problem with pricing S3.. May be I am alone in that.

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

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Post by m-i » Sat, Sep 15, 2012, 5:05 PM UTC

richardkeller wrote: post #42

m-i wrote: post #15

Wow! S3 is really expensive.

Compared to what? I'm very curious to find out alternatives that are cheaper than Amazon.

Compared to Hetzner. Not a cloud provider, but a root server provider. It's also more expensive than Strato - also a root server provider. Of course, not with the same availability, but for most startups it's more than enough.

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

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Post by wtn » Sat, Sep 15, 2012, 5:36 PM UTC

mmahemoff wrote: post #19

"Amazon's pricing page was kind of.. ass." Given Heroku's popularity and the simplicity of its sliders, why has Amazon not put in a few days to build this on S3? I'm asking genuinely as I'm wondering if it really is enterprisey oversight or it really gets them more signups or usage without providing this kind of tool. As a historical sideline, Amazon is no stranger to sliders. Its diamond search (of all things) was o…

If it was obvious how much it cost, fewer people would use it.

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

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Post by justincormack » Sat, Sep 15, 2012, 5:54 PM UTC

m-i wrote: post #47

richardkeller wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compared to what? I'm very curious to find out alternatives that are cheaper than Amazon.

Compared to Hetzner. Not a cloud provider, but a root server provider. It's also more expensive than Strato - also a root server provider. Of course, not with the same availability, but for most startups it's more than enough.

In what way is server pricing even comparable to S3? Or are you pricing up running openstack on Hetzner?

Re: A simplified S3 pricing page

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Post by tillk » Sun, Sep 16, 2012, 10:26 AM UTC

_suoiruc wrote: post #29

statictype wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It would be interesting to see how your homegrown sync solution works on various operating systems (desktop + mobile) and offers a web-based UI to do the same on the go.

Maybe you discover the sarcasm in my comment. ;)