I recently started using Cloudberry’s Backup Desktop edition as my Carbonite (Online Backup) subscription is running out. In their newest version 2.0 they have added the ability to backup to a local folder or network share. With storage space so cheap now I would much rather backup my music and videos locally. I just bought […]
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Amazon Cloudfront 1hr TTL
I just recently read that you can now set the TTL of an object on Amazon’s Cloudfront to 1 hr instead of the 24 hr minimum that it used to be. I only found this out because I was reading through the discussion forums looking to see if there was an ETA of when this […]
Read moreAmazon S3 Announces Temporary Lower Transfer-In Costs
In celebration of S3’s 3rd anniversary Amazon has announced the reduction of the transfer-in costs for data from $0.10/GB to $0.03GB for April – May 2009. Now is the time to transfer all the home videos and music that isn’t backed up else where.
Read moreAmazon Announces Tiered Pricing for S3
Today Amazon anounced new tiered pricing for the S3 service. For the United States: Storage — Current Pricing (thru October 31st) $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used Storage — New Pricing (effective November 1st) $0.150 per GB – first 50 TB / month of storage used $0.140 per GB – next 50 TB / month […]
Read moreAmazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008
It is good to see that Amazon released a pretty detailed statement detailing the events of the S3 outage on 7/20. Some people have been complaining about the stability of the environment, but I think it has been overall really good. When there are problems they are fixed extremely quickly and if there was going […]
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