Isabel Wang (not verified) on December 2, 2006 - 4:24am.
Hey Scott, 1 TB of data transfer is $100 on a dedicated server, and $200 on S3. But what if your traffic went up to 10 TB? You could set up 9 more servers at a total cost of $1K, but you’d have to make sure no individual machine exceeds 1TB. Otherwise you’d be billed $0.50 to $1 per GB (depending on the hosting provider) in overage fees. In this case, S3 might still be twice as expensive ($2K for 10TB), but you’d also have to take into account the time and effort of managing 9 extra servers. So oversold hosting plans are a great deal - up to a certain level of usage. I think Amazon’s target market is people whose requirements are above that.
Hey Scott, 1 TB of data transfer is $100 on a dedicated server, and $200 on S3. But what if your traffic went up to 10 TB? You could set up 9 more servers at a total cost of $1K, but you’d have to make sure no individual machine exceeds 1TB. Otherwise you’d be billed $0.50 to $1 per GB (depending on the hosting provider) in overage fees. In this case, S3 might still be twice as expensive ($2K for 10TB), but you’d also have to take into account the time and effort of managing 9 extra servers. So oversold hosting plans are a great deal - up to a certain level of usage. I think Amazon’s target market is people whose requirements are above that.