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.

I'm serving files from Amazon S3. This gives me the benefit of world class storage and streaming, without having to own / run the servers myself. Bandwidth from them is "cheap" at $0.12/GB... but with an average podcast of 30 minutes being 25meg file, an episode with 1,000 downloads is 2.5GB of bandwidth.

i have a customer that averages 20,000 downloads per episode, and a bunch of others with close to 1,000 downloads per episode. it adds up fast.

good point. maybe a shorter trial to start with, for the early version though :)

true! i tried to make that point at the very end of the post... maybe should have emphasized it more

thanks! :) i totally get the need to move things in house, too. i'm pretty happy that i can get the right experience for my users without having to do that, at this point. IaaS is definitely amazing! "oh, i need more servers? (fiddles with a knob) DONE!" :D