Comments on: Want a Crash-Proof Site? A Paint-by-Numbers Guide to Using (and Surviving) Amazon S3

By: learn and master painting

learn and master painting — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:12:42 +0000

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By: umar

umar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:21:09 +0000

Does this account free

By: Scott Reyna

Scott Reyna — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:48:13 +0000

Wow, this is great stuff and I’m glad I ran across your blog. Keep it coming!

By: Tina Johnson

Tina Johnson — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:43:31 +0000

Nothing but great info here. Thanks.

By: wholesale clothing

wholesale clothing — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:58:36 +0000

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By: Sanix

Sanix — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:18:31 +0000

I’m using Rackspace cloud instead of Amazon S3. Rackspace cloud sites and cloud files can be combined together to make a very powerful website solution. Rackspace also charges per usage. I don’t know whether they are more expensive than Amazon S3 or not but I’m happy with them :-)

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:30:34 +0000

I will admit I haven’t read all of the comments above so this may have been mentioned:

S3 is not a CDN to whoever mentioned that in a comment. Amazon S3 with CloudFront enabled (a custom bucket configuration) is a CDN. That being said, regular S3 isn’t the solution to everything and will introduce some nice latency.

If you want a quick how-to on setting up S3 with CloudFront, I wrote a detailed post: http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-getting-started-with-amazon-cloudfront

As for “Amazon S3 only works with Firefox.” – while s3fox may be crazy popular there are tons of S3 compatible programs – like Transmit on the Mac, or CloudBerry Explorer on Windows.

By: Michele | Writer's Round-About

Michele | Writer's Round-About — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:42:15 +0000

Wow, Mary. You taught me something new today. Thanks! I love learning. :-D

I’ll definitely keep this as a reference should I decide to use Amazon S3 in the future.

By: Thomas Lierzer

Thomas Lierzer — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:45:03 +0000

I just wanted tot thank you for this post.
I was just about to shoot my computer.
The troubleshooting section help me
change my mind of publicly executing
my Dell.

By: rosie

rosie — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:38:45 +0000

Wow, this is just what the doctor ordered. It was clear, concise and creatively funny.
I followed the steps and was successful. However, I think the it important to let new bloggers know that they need to imput the codes via the settings in WordPress.
I like the player you suggested and whereas it will work for my non-profits I am looking for a lower cost solution. There simply must be a non-pretty tech script out there somewhere.
I am also getting an education in the comments. Thanks, this is blogging at it’s finest!

By: work at home

work at home — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:17:10 +0000

Very cool! Glad I found this post. I wanted to say hello and thanks for posting such good stuff. – Jon

By: penny stock

penny stock — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:50:03 +0000

Blogroll links aint that great :P but i am not the admin… :P … Just Telling :P :D

By: antennenkabel

antennenkabel — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:35:55 +0000

I would like to mention that Forklift, a Mac finder-replacement and FTP/SFTP client does integrate quite well with Amazon S3.

By: moonwalker

moonwalker — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:36:12 +0000

Its a great info,thank’s darren

By: furniture

furniture — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:22:58 +0000

Amazon S3 has been a great help for me for years.

By: Chris Monty

Chris Monty — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:35:56 +0000

This is perfect. I literally JUST switched to a dedicated server because our site had grown too big for our shared hosting account. This will probably help even more if I can use it to reduce bandwidth usage.

By: eZs3

eZs3 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:28:24 +0000

Darren

Perhaps you should give some guidance on using the JW player and the €49 license required to use it on a commercial site – eg a site which has adverts on it

TomC

By: alwayslovely

alwayslovely — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:09:31 +0000

mary, thank you so much for providing a simple guide on the service. I have noticed renowned bloggers using the service but never really find out more until reading your post.
Once again, thanks for the overview!

By: Peter Krogholm

Peter Krogholm — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:35:55 +0000

Been using S3 to host audio files for a while now and it really is cheap. One thing: I tried the Firefox S3 extension and found it rather annoying to use. I’m on a Mac and will highly recommend Cyberduck instead – it’s free and very easy to use once set up (I also use it to manage my WP plugins etc). Get it here:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/cyberduck.html

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:55:16 +0000

If you want to host video on S3 I would like to recommend http://www.flvmate.com/ it is one time purchase of $39 and it works on Windows and Mac.
I prefer it over EZS3 because I don’t have to pay every month.

@Martin I wish you didn’t use you affiliate link. It gives little credibility to your pitch.
if you expand bit.ly link you will get the following:
“http://www.ezs3.com/index.cfm?affID=special4u”