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[Chris R. Miller]

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.

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