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My company was at some point hosting boatload of large media files on Amazon S3 for our clients to download. It was financial disaster. As soon as bandwidth from regular hosting services became available I've switched and laughed all the way to the bank. Now switching to dedicated servers for even cheaper.



+1.

When it comes to web-serving, S3 is great for really bursty loads or lots of tiny ones.

When you have a lot of throughput all the time; S3 will be an expensive choice.




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