Comments on: Amazon S3: Storage for photoblogs

By: Photoblogs and Amazon S3 — Blog on Photoblogs

Photoblogs and Amazon S3 — Blog on Photoblogs — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:00:14 +0000

[...] mentioned in an earlier post that I was planning on using Amazon S3 with my photoblog. Well I am happy to let you all know that I have finally managed to get everything switched over [...]

By: Vitor Pinho

Vitor Pinho — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:30:38 +0000

There’s also steadyoffload.com which does exactly what it should: offload images. this is very good because if steadyoffload goes down (like it happened with s3) your site would still have the local images available. and the main advantage is that it can offload anything except HTML files.

By: Markus Hartel

Markus Hartel — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:42:28 +0000

jungledisk on OS X

By: brett

brett — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:33:31 +0000

@Markus: Thanks for the comments about using S3 for backups – you’ve hit the nail on the head about finally being able to “sleep at night”

What tool are using to access your S3 data?

@Bob: As always Bob, your thoughtful responses make me think! Thanks for taking the time to comment.

By: Markus Hartel

Markus Hartel — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:43:02 +0000

My main reason for going with S3 was redundancy, I have a hard drive dedicated for photographs and a backup thereof on a 2nd drive. When I finally made the switch to digital I was very concerned about the longevity and archival qualities of digital media, especially optical media. With Amazon S3 I’m finally able to sleep at night

S3 is a great service for offsite backups, I’m using it since about a year and have 5+ years (about 200GB) of digital photographs on there. The data gets synced automatically overnight and the cost is reasonable for my volume at about $20 per month.

By: Bob Eddings

Bob Eddings — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:17:27 +0000

Good point about G3. I haven’t had been bitten by the storage/transfer issue but, as with other possible “professional” solutions, this seems like something that all “serious” bloggers need to investigate and consider.

Thanks for being the guinea pig. I’m looking forward to the benefit of your experience and advice. That kind of experiential feedback is why a blog like this is potentially important for all of us. Thanks!

Flickr is a topic that is altogether different and needs to be featured here. I would welcome a healthy discussion.