Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Goodbye big hosting costs!

Amazon just came out with S3 - Simple Storage Service.  This just gives me goose bumps all over...
 
I'm just high on Amazon as a whole right now... I plan to post more at length about all the cool things they're doing right now.
 
S3 is a hosted hard drive space - the same storage space that they use for all of their own sites.  It's accessible only through REST or SOAP (for downloads you can call a file through http).  It costs a paltry, miniscule, (ridiculous) $.15/gig/month and $.20/gig of transfer.  Amazing!  Just think of all the video, audio, and images you could put on your site.
 
The days of paying big costs to web hosts for disk space and bandwidth are over.  I almost feel sorry for the dedicated server salespeople of the world...  I do work for a site that figures they could save around $120,000/year of co-location and server costs if they used this.
 


Who are the potential customers?

  1. Porn.  Talk about lots of bandwidth...

  2. Video/audio.  I wonder how much You Tube pays for their disk space and transfer?

  3. Image hosting - same sentiment as above, but for flickr.

  4. Outsourced hard drive space - cool idea check out Box.net and X Drive

  5. The fifth big customer?  Hopefully, me!  Just don't know what I'm going to put there yet...



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Location: Fort Collins, Colorado, US

I am passionate about business on the Internet. This blog is my personal archive of lessons learned while conducting business on the Internet.

I started programming web sites 11 years ago.

In 1997, I started my first Internet business, called Carryout.com. It was an online food ordering service that allowed you to order food from a local restaurant right to your door. At the time, that was pretty cool!

The fire was stoked, and I started learning as much as I could about Internet marketing and copywriting. I became an expert at measuring and testing.

I've been a success and a failure many times over.

Now, a decade later, I still learn every day what it takes to be successful in online business. This blog is how I record those lessons. Since I started this blog, I've learned the value of keeping a written record of my Internet business experiences. As long as I keep learning and growing, I'll keep writing about it.

I doubt I'll ever quit learning.

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