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May 9, 2011

Cloud Services for Static Content

Recent advances in cloud service offerings may be unaffordable or inconvenient for single site locations, but there is at least one feature but distributed websites should be utilizing.  Faster website downloads can be achieved using one of the many content delivery networks (CDN's).  We've recently implemented high speed distributed static content and data ffrom Windows Azure and Amazon S3.  Contact us for more information or sign up and try for yourself:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud/default.aspx

http://aws.amazon.com/s3

One of the questions I receive the most is How much does it cost? 

You only pay for what you use.  Amazon has a nice tool to estimate your monthly cost for a webserver (EC2) Amazon Calculator and for static content (S3) CDN's.

The pay as you go price comparisons can be found here:

  1. Amazon Pricing
  2. Azure Pricing


Additionally, Azure is available on a free trial basis with a basic plan until September 30th, 2011

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