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Hey guys

I want to move my websites files to a cloud. I am struggling to decide between Azure and Amazon S3 or EC2.

I need it to scail to high volumes, but I am not sure which is the best bet. I will be using asp.net and php to interface with it

Any insite into the matter would be great.

Thanks

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Not trying to hijack, but I’ve been considering the same move for one of my clients. They are averaging between 3-7 TB/m in video and image delivery. Does this sound like a cloud candidate?

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Does anyone know if any of the amazon webservices offer on-the-fly image resizing?

I suppose that you need contact their support only to get answer. However pre-sales questions are recommended still.

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Hi,

IMHO you’d be far better off saving each size used than doing it on-the-fly, it’ll cost you less for your storage space than it will for the processing power to handle it, plus it’ll be a faster user experience. Of course you can go hybrid - create a script that generates the right sized image, then saves it to disk, then next time it is needed it loads it from disk, that way you don’t have to resize them all to specific sizes when you upload them.

Thanks,

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Thanks for all the feedback guys. Much appreciated.

Does anyone know if any of the amazon webservices offer on-the-fly image resizing? As I use a lot of different sizes all over the site.

Thanks for any feedback

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I’ve recently virtualized all of my servers into LiquidWeb’s Storm On Demand service and I’m very happy. I can size up or down servers, make images of a current server, clone, and set backups – all through their web based control panel. Performance has been very good for my services (hosting).

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Can you please tell what have you been using before for this purpose? I’m think about configuration you need.

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Amazon s3 have just brought out the new s3-RRS option, essentially cheaper storage fees in exchange for less redundancy for non critical data. Still not as cheap as simplecdn though if you’re more bandwidth rather than storage heavy

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I have been using my own custom CDN, but load is getting a bit big for it to handle all the load. It was accessed via a web service.

Thanks for the reply