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How to Build Fast, High-Capacity Podcast Sites on the Cheap!

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Originally presented at PodCamp Nashville Many people have figured out how to record, edit and create their podcasts, but they don’t know how to easily setup a podcast website — let alone, set it up for the possibility of hundreds or thousands of people downloading it at one time. This tutorial shows you how to setup a fast, high-capacity podcast website without spending a lot of money. A key component to this solution is Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). S3 provides very cheap file storage and high-capacity delivery. That enables you to distribute your audio files to thousands of people at one ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2870/how-to-build-fast-high-capacity-podcast-sites-on-the-cheap

Regardless of Outage, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Still Rocks

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Although we were directly affected by the two hour outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it still wasn’t the end of the world. I read several blog entries and comments about “not putting all of your eggs in one basket” and “how cloud computing was unreliable.” However, what other baskets should I put my eggs in, and how would that make my website or Web application more reliable? There aren’t many comparable baskets to put our eggs in, and even if there were, they can’t guarantee that they won’t go down either. Regardless of what hosting service you decide to use, ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2864/regardless-of-outage-amazon-web-services-aws-still-rocks

Lights Out for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) all of Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Outage Shutters Twitter and Thousands of Other Websites

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Update 1: It’s being reported that all of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is down. Update 2: AWS appears to be back online as of 9:00AM CST. The outage lasted about 1-2 hours this morning. Friday morning (February 15, 2008) Amazon Web Services experienced a system-wide outage of their Simple Storage Service (S3). This outage has affected thousands of websites and Web applications, including Twitter and Raven SEO Tools. Twitter relies on S3 to display their images. However, if you visited it this morning, instead of seeing avatars, you only saw text. If you’re a user of Raven, and you were trying to view ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2863/lights-out-for-amazon-simple-storage-service-s3-shutters-twitter-and-thousands-of-other-websites

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Announces Limited Beta for New Database Service – SimpleDB

Friday, December 14th, 2007
The Amazon Web Services team just announced SimpleDB – the long anticipated database service to complement S3, EC2, and SQS. Now there will be an alternative to managing your own SQL cluster within EC2. Here’s what they had to say: Dear AWS Developers, This is a short note to let a subset of our most active developers know about an upcoming limited beta of our newest web service: Amazon SimpleDB, which is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/446/amazon-web-services-announces-database-beta-simpledb

How to Make Files Publicly Accessible on Amazon S3

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) allows webmasters to store and deliver files cheaply and quickly. S3 is perfect for hosting large images, documents, audio files (MP3s) and video files. An excellent real-life example of how S3 can be used is with podcasting. Most podcast files are quite large and hosting them can be expensive, especially if the podcast is popular. However, S3’s architecture and pricing makes it affordable for almost any podcaster. In the past, S3 has been a little complicated for webmasters to use. However, companies like Panic, Inc. have made the service much easier to access. Panic’s S3-friendly ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2849/how-to-make-files-publicly-accessible-on-amazon-s3

Flexiscale, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Nirvanix Comparison

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
FlexiScale is a new UK based on-demand computing service, similar to Nirvanix and the EC2/S3/SQS components of Amazon Web Services. While they all provide basic computing and storage through a pay-as-you-go pricing model, each company has targeted their pricing and service offerings towards different users. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a complete set of very simple, inexpensive services that can be combined to create any application. The caveat is that you must develop and manage everything yourself; they provide no control panels or sophisticated to help build and manage your network. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) allows for storage ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2570/flexiscale-amazon-web-services-aws-and-nirvanix-comparison

Live Blogging with Amazon S3

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Yesterday’s live blogging of the WWDC keynote was a big success. Within the span of about 2 hours we received 20k visitors. Tyler did a great job of posting text and photo updates as they happened, thanks to his Verizon Wireless V740 ExpressCard. Our main objective was to test the viability of using S3 as a platform for live blogging of events. Having watched sites like Mac Rumors struggle with this kind of service, we were curious to see how Amazon Web Services would handle the load, and how much it would cost. We built a simple administration tool for ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2564/live-blogging-with-amazon-s3

Amazon S3 File Browser

Monday, February 19th, 2007
Last month I blogged about the release of PHP-AWS – our open source Amazon Web Services library. Today I want to highlight the S3 File Manager I recently added to the project. It makes debugging your S3 code much easier. Not only does it let you browse your bucket contents, download and delete files, but it’s also an excellent example of how to use the S3 class. The script is self-contained, so it’s easy to drop into any of your projects. Just open the file in your browser, fill in your Amazon info, and you’re all set.

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2944/amazon-s3-file-browser

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