Exploring Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

This week I’ve been reading a great deal about Amazon EC2, a service which lets you rent servers from Amazon’s huge server farms from as little as 10 cents/hour ($73/month).
The principle behind EC2 is genius. You select which ‘AMI’ (linux image) you want to start your server with, then choose what spec you want.
Here’s the [...]

Fresh Batch of CodeIgniter Libraries Out Now!

After a bit of work, I’ve built a nice little set of useful CodeIgniter Libraries for you to plug into your applications.
I realized, that some of the features I have here on my blog, I would quite like to use in my CodeIgniter applications. And, because many of these new web 2.0 services, it was [...]

Amazon S3 - The future of all our storage needs?

Since I discovered Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) I’ve been curious about it.
Firstly, it has a very unusual business model; offering unlimited amounts of storage and bandwidth, charging you for what you use.
Their rates are also suprising low:

United States
Storage
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB - all data transfer in
$0.18 per GB - [...]