usecase: Amazon S3 rules with JungleDisk

Short: if you run a very small biz and want some archives to be stored based on demand-growth and with a decent price -- this combination is absolutely fine.

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Verbose: during my last 8 years I collected some 11GB of images. Since my computer is too old and buggy to trust him and since we're 2008 -- I was thinking "why don't I store my pics somewhere private/secure/reliable online".

After some search of various online tools and services -- especially considering price -- I find very interesting two options: HP Upline and JungleDisk w/ Amazon S3.


Too bad that in the meantime HP Upline failed big time. They also sent me an email that since I'm non-US -- there's no chance I may have with their service.


Then I tested Tested JungleDisk with Amazon S3. It took me some 10 minutes to make the setup work with all the steps required (buy the tool, register card with amazon, setup tool, setup public/private keys, start copy).

You know what ? It works great on Windows!!

[ Later update on 21-05-2008: it works fine in Ubuntu 8.04 but if you add this line
"blacklist ipv6" at the top of the "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist" file ...]

I hate the fact that without JungleBox there is not transparency on how my stuff is stored on Amazon. There's enough to improve on JungleBox and also on Amazon's transparency "my-account".

But now I have a "huge" virtual drive that I can map from Windows and Linux. I also have location transparency -- I have my data available for me everywhere I go. And now my old-one can crash anytime it wants :-)


Speaking about a small business or a demanding individual -- I think Amazon S3 is not good for huge traffic made often on the same data or especially if someone make a distributed dos on a application you've done over S3 (do Amazon have tested or guard against this somehow ?)

But if you run a small biz and want some archives to be stored based on demand-growth and with a decent price -- and used somehow rarely -- this combination is absolutely fantastic :-)