[0x3f]

It's a bit more complex than an S3 bucket though because the value comes from the reputation network, which can't really be replicated easily.

Though, saying that, I suppose all the reputation data is kind of public. Apart from emails/accounts.

[groundzeros2015]

> It's a bit more complex than an S3 bucket

It’s even less. I would bet if it’s not now, for the vast majority of its life it was a machine at someone’s desk at Cornell.

[PaulHoule]

When I was involved it was an x86 machine in a rack in Rhodes Hall.

I had a copy of the whole thing under my desk though in Olin Library on a Pentium 3 machine from IBM that was built like a piece of military hardware. In April the sun would shine in the windows of my office, the HVAC system was unable to cool my office, and temperatures would soar above 100F and I'd be sitting there in a tank top and drinking a lot of water and sports drinks and visitors would ask me how I could stand it.

[groundzeros2015]

Thanks for confirming. We need to stop marketing for AWS by talking about the ability to use the internet in AWS branded product terms.

[0x3f]

The S3 API/UX/cost model is so seductively simple for static hosting though. I kind of think they deserve their ubiquity. Not on 90% of their products though.

[PaulHoule]

It's great for some applications, like to serve up the QR codes for this system

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116086491667959840

I could even make those cards tradeable like NFTs, use DynamoDB as the ledger, and not worry about the cost at all.

On the other hand if you are talking about something bandwidth heavy forget about AWS. Video hosting with Cloudfront doesn't seem that difficult, even developing a YouTube clone where anybody could upload a video and it gets hosted seems like a moderate sized project. But with the bandwidth meter always running that kind of system could put you into the poorhouse pretty quickly if it caught on. Much of why YouTube doesn't have competition is exactly that: Google's costs are very low and they have an established system of monetization.

I am keeping my photo albums on Behance rather than self-hosting because I lost enough money on a big photo site in AWS that it drove my wife furious and it took me a few years to pay off the debt.

[groundzeros2015]

> I lost enough money on a big photo site in AWS

I’m sorry what. This is supposed to persuade me?