Live Blogging with Amazon S3
Posted by Joe on June 14, 2007
This is pretty neat stuff. A couple of bloggers decided to use Amazon’s S3 to handle traffic for an Apple keynote live blog, and they recently shared some of their stats:
- 7 pictures
- 130 text posts
- 20k visits
- 50k pageviews to the page
- 5M requests - this includes the 15 second content refresh and the images.
- 47GB of transfer
- content was 17k, images were 200k.
And the total cost for all this? $10. Amazon S3 is certainly no replacement for “real web hosting” like Media Temple, but it does go to show how blogs nowadays can use web services to handle huge spikes in traffic for not that much extra cost (all without degrading performance).
