Tag: analysis

AWS savings

Depending on my comfort level with EC2’s reliability, we may not even need a failover server as we have now. But just assuming we were comparing apples to apples and we assumed that Mass Events Labs needs 2 servers, the total annual cost is $1752. Today, our annual cost for 2 servers is $8400.

about time, too. there are far too many small, incompetent hosters out there

Amazon S3 cost savings

smugmug is saving massive amounts of money with S3

But wait! It gets even better! Amazon has been so reliable over the last 7 months (considerably more reliable than our own internal storage, which I consider to be quite reliable), that just last week we made S3 an even more fundamental part of our storage architecture. I’ll save the details for a future post, but the bottom line is that we’re actually going to start selling up to 90% of our hard drives on eBay or something. So costs I had previously assumed were sunk are actually about to be recouped. We should get many $100Ks back in cash. I expect our savings from Amazon S3 to be well over $1M in 2007, maybe as high as $2M.