link.exe is not here
Brad Roberts
braddr at puremagic.com
Wed Sep 10 15:44:37 PDT 2008
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
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