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Sure. http://mediawombat.com does that very thing. The website is stored on a hosted machine somewhere in Florida and the actual media is stored on Amazon's S3 and loaded via the browser on demand.



Cool ... that looks to be the cheapest solution.

Possibly use a shared deluxe to host site on 1.2TB bandwidth a month, then all the storage and streaming of audio files from S3.


> Possibly use a shared deluxe to host site on 1.2TB bandwidth a month, then all the storage and streaming of audio files from S3.

If you mean some kind of shared hosting, I would strongly advice against it. If you are looking at 50k - 100k users a month, you would need good amount of RAM and CPU to do stuff like re-encoding mp3 files (you will have to do this as flash does not support many kinds of mp3 files)

There is other stuff too .. atleast go for a VPS. We are hosted on one and the experience has been brilliant so far.




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