link.exe is not here

[Brad Roberts]

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.

Later,
Brad