www.adamhowitt.com

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Reduce bandwidth and save money with Amazon's S3

• Adam Howitt
• www.adamhowitt.com
• adam_at_adamhowitt.com

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About Adam Howitt

• Over 7 years ColdFusion
• 1 ½ years at MacKay Company
• 3 years at Biolab in Atlanta
• 3 years at Duo Consulting in Chicago
• Independent Consultant for 1 month
• Load testing www.poundmyserver.com
• Google Analytics, SEO and Optimizer
• Google Maps
• http//www.walkjogrun.net

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CF Hosting

• ColdFusion, SQL Server, IIS
• Good price, good service
• Shared hosting, shared failures
• No control

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Self Hosted Hardware

• BlueDragon, MySQL, Apache, Postfix
• 4 x P3s
• Static IP address
• WRT54g router
• Large closet

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Self Hosting Practically Speaking

• Cheap
• Many domains
• Full control
• Vacuum cleaners
• Hairdryers
• Whining fans
• Closet space

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Why is the Internet Slow?

• If you have a problem,
• if no one else can help, and
• if you can find them,
• maybe you can hire... The A-Team

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Overview of Amazon Web Services

• E-commerce Service (ECS)
• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Flexible Payments (FPS)
• Mechanical Turk
• Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Alexa Site Thumbnail
• Alexa Top Sites

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Amazon S3 Overview

• REST based service
• Access Control Lists
• Upload static content
• Encrypted uploads
• Content delivery network

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Amazon S3 Pricing

• Storage0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
• Data Transfer0.10 per GB - all data transfer in
• 0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer
  out0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data
  transfer out0.13 per GB - data transfer out /
  month over 50 TB
• Requests0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST
  requests0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other
  requests

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Uploading to S3

• Browser plugin - S3fox
• https//addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/324
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• ColdFusion S3.cfc
• http//www.ajaxcf.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/9/7/Amaz
  on-S3-REST-Wrapper
• getBuckets()
• getBucket(), putBucket() and deleteBucket()
• getObject(), putObject() and deleteObject()

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Incorporating S3 to WalkJogRun.net

• User creates a route
• Overview is saved to a database
• Old System
• Waypoint XML files saved to file system
• XML Files loaded with AJAX
• New System
• Waypoint XML files sent to S3
• XML Files loaded from S3 with an AJAX proxy
• Nothing is saved locally

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Results

• Load test - 10x faster than my own server
• Bandwidth reduced on my network to 33 (178k gt
  66k) per page
• Pricing

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Ideas for the Service

• Movies
• Podcasts
• Offsite Backups
• All your static files

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Questions

• Adam Howitt
• [phone]
• adam_at_adamhowitt.com
• http//www.webdevref.com/blog
• http//www.walkjogrun.net
• http//www.adamhowitt.com