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How to Build Fast, High-Capacity Podcast Sites on the Cheap!

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Originally presented at PodCamp Nashville
Many people have figured out how to record, edit and create their podcasts, but they don’t know how to easily setup a podcast website — let alone, set it up for the possibility of hundreds or thousands of people downloading it at one time. This tutorial shows you how to setup [...]

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Regardless of Outage, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Still Rocks

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Although we were directly affected by the two hour outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it still wasn’t the end of the world. I read several blog entries and comments about “not putting all of your eggs in one basket” and “how cloud computing was unreliable.” However, what other baskets should I put my eggs [...]

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Lights Out for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) all of Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Outage Shutters Twitter and Thousands of Other Websites

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Update 1: It’s being reported that all of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is down.
Update 2: AWS appears to be back online as of 9:00AM CST. The outage lasted about 1-2 hours this morning.
Friday morning (February 15, 2008) Amazon Web Services experienced a system-wide outage of their Simple Storage Service (S3). This outage has affected thousands [...]

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Announces Limited Beta for New Database Service - SimpleDB

Friday, December 14th, 2007

The Amazon Web Services team just announced SimpleDB - the long anticipated database service to complement S3, EC2, and SQS. Now there will be an alternative to managing your own SQL cluster within EC2. Here’s what they had to say:
Dear AWS Developers,
This is a short note to let a subset of our most [...]

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How to Make Files Publicly Accessible on Amazon S3

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) allows webmasters to store and deliver files cheaply and quickly. S3 is perfect for hosting large images, documents, audio files (MP3s) and video files. An excellent real-life example of how S3 can be used is with podcasting. Most podcast files are quite large and hosting them can be expensive, [...]

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Flexiscale, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Nirvanix Comparison

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

FlexiScale is a new UK based on-demand computing service, similar to Nirvanix and the EC2/S3/SQS components of Amazon Web Services. While they all provide basic computing and storage through a pay-as-you-go pricing model, each company has targeted their pricing and service offerings towards different users.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a complete set of very [...]

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Live Blogging with Amazon S3

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Yesterday’s live blogging of the WWDC keynote was a big success. Within the span of about 2 hours we received 20k visitors. Tyler did a great job of posting text and photo updates as they happened, thanks to his Verizon Wireless V740 ExpressCard.
Our main objective was to test the viability of using S3 as [...]

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Amazon S3 File Browser

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Last month I blogged about the release of PHP-AWS - our open source Amazon Web Services library. Today I want to highlight the S3 File Manager I recently added to the project. It makes debugging your S3 code much easier. Not only does it let you browse your bucket contents, download and delete files, but [...]

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