Low Cost File Hosting
by admin on Mar.13, 2007, under Hosting
I am always looking for lower cost file hosting for our network. We currently have a few providers that we use for downloads on our sites. Some of them are quite expensive like Akamai and some are pretty well priced like Panther Express. We also have used a company like FileBurst in the past as well.
Akamai and Panther both are CDN networks so they cache our files for faster transfers.
FileBurst was basically a glorified file server but we much less expensive than Akamai and had good uptime.
Panther Express came along and was a lower price then both of the past companies and went head to head in performance with Akamai.
I just started looking at a new ultra low cost provider which is Amazon’s S3 service. We aren’t currently using them but a lot of companies are and they look pretty promising. Price point is $0.15 per GB-Month storage and $0.20 per GB of data transferred. S3 is not a CDN network and so their performance won’t be quite as good but at that price you could at least dump some lower valued traffic over to them.
If we do sign up with them and start using them a lot I will update this blog on our experience. So far my recommendation is still Panther Express.
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