Using S3

A while ago, I wrote a post about my thoughts on S3, a storage service from Amazon. Well, now I’ve decided that I’m going to setup some / most of the images from GPearce to load from S3, for two reasons. First, images seem to load faster from S3 than they do from the server I’m on at the moment, and two, because it’s very, very cheap, and it’ll reduce my costs when I move later this year to a pay as you go VPS (bandwidth wise). 

In the next few days, images will start loading from s3.gpearce.info , hopefully quickly - I’m playing with geo stuff so I can have some people loading from the EU datacenters, but that’s not looking hopeful right at the moment, I don’t know enough about it. Maybe in future.

I’m also looking at making an automatic backup plugin for Wordpress that puts backups onto S3, which will be a mix of two plugins, but I’m not doing that until I’ve got lots of spare time on my hands :P