[thejosh]

Right, but if you go with a "budget" dedicated supplier of dedicated servers for cheap (probably based out of EU such as Hetzner/OVH) or out of the US (through someone who provides "unlimited" bandwidth), have everything through s3 as a backup incase the server has any issues, you will be able to save money.

25 meg downloads don't last very long, so the very worst is that your gigabit pipe gets caught for a bit - hell even a company like Linode does 2GB out for $160/m :).

S3 is very expensive for what you are doing, saying you don't need to own/run servers for things like a podcast is just pissing money into the wind.

[derickbailey]

"saying you don't need to own/run servers for things like a podcast is just pissing money into the wind." - that's probably true. i may end up doing something like your suggesting in the future. right now, the streaming side of things is not something i want to concern myself with. i have other things that need my attention.

linode's $160/mo plan would cover me for a while. i'm transfering around 4TB a month right now, and that would cover 16TB.

thanks for the feedback and suggestions! this is something i'll need to keep in mind in the near future.

[thejosh]

We might come across as brash, but we really want everything to succeed. :)