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[Chris R. Miller]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Chris R. Miller wrote:
> 
>> Brad Roberts wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> Benji Smith wrote:
>>>>> Have you ever considered using BitTorrent as an alternate distribution
>>>>> method? Then you'd offload some of the bandwidth expense to the
>>>>> members of the community rather than absorbing it all yourself.
>>>> I have no idea how to do that.
>>> My personal favorite.. use amazon's s3 for hosting the files.  Costs a
>>> little, but you get effectively unlimited bandwidth and torrent is just
>>> an added bonus that comes along for free.  It was how I mirrored the 1.0
>>> release ages ago.  I think it cost me a whole $2.50 for several thousand
>>> downloads.
>>>
>>> Later,
>>> Brad
>>>
>>> Disclaimers: Yes, I work for Amazon.  No, I don't work on S3.  Yes, I
>>> use S3 for my own personal hosting of some big-ish files (including all
>>> of the d conference 2007 presentations).
>> Amazon is shutting down S3 though.  The announcement was about two
>> months ago IIRC.
> 
> Um, I don't know where you got that from, but it's entirely false.

Hmm, it was in my Good Morning Silicon Valley newsletter IIRC.  They
also announced that Steve Jobs died though, so it could have been a mistake.

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