Comments on: The HostCube advantage over EC2 http://www.empoweringmedia.com/blog/the-hostcube-advantage-over-ec2 Empowering Media's tech blog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:18:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: lludwig http://www.empoweringmedia.com/blog/the-hostcube-advantage-over-ec2#comment-12 lludwig Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:20:18 +0000 http://www.empoweringmedia.com/blog/?p=21#comment-12 @Rob M: Keep in mind S3 != <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network" rel="nofollow">CDN</a>. Here is a blog entry with more info on it too: <a href="http://athleticsnyc.com/blog/entry/thoughts-on-bandwidth-and-amazon-s3" rel="nofollow">Thoughts on bandwidth and Amazon S3</a> Also once we offer shared storage their service will become less useful @Rob M: Keep in mind S3 != CDN. Here is a blog entry with more info on it too:

Thoughts on bandwidth and Amazon S3

Also once we offer shared storage their service will become less useful

]]> By: Rob M http://www.empoweringmedia.com/blog/the-hostcube-advantage-over-ec2#comment-11 Rob M Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:44:40 +0000 http://www.empoweringmedia.com/blog/?p=21#comment-11 One addendum... transfer between S3 and EC2 is free, so at least you don't have to pay there. I wonder if anyone has tried to benchmark that network latency. I agree with the rest of the points. However, I'm still evaluating if S3 is the best choice for serving static content such as images and other media... One addendum… transfer between S3 and EC2 is free, so at least you don’t have to pay there. I wonder if anyone has tried to benchmark that network latency. I agree with the rest of the points. However, I’m still evaluating if S3 is the best choice for serving static content such as images and other media…

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