People are touting S3, but you pay twice -- storage and transfer. Using the most inexpensive options with S3, a 1 gigabyte file (with reduced redundancy) with 1 download per month would run you $0.21.
Even without the one download this would still cost you $0.093 just to keep the file!
Let's ramp up and assume you have 1TB of storage and 250GB / month of transfer. How much is that?
STORAGE: 1000 GB x $0.093 = $93.00
TRANSFER: 1000 GB x $0.120 = $120.00
TOTAL: $213.00
I should note the above does not include any servers which will actually run the websites.
Lets compare this to hosting your own (ie - dedicated):
I have a 1.5 TB RAID-I server with 1.8 TB transfer per month on a 100MB port on a month-to-month contract.
STORAGE: 1.5TB RAID-I
TRANSFER: 1.8TB
Total : $123.00 / month
It is a 8-core xeon with 4GB RAM -- I run a LAPP stack with 6 Cores dedicated to ffmpeg and image conversions. Waayyyy faster than cloud.
This is more of a hosting and infrastructure question. I recommend bringing this question to the community at webhostingtalk.com.
Yes, you will have to grow into these numbers, but that can happen pretty quickly.
currently at 800hosting.com. I got a slightly better deal because of an error in their order system (now fixed). It's only been a month but not problems so far.
Even without the one download this would still cost you $0.093 just to keep the file!
Let's ramp up and assume you have 1TB of storage and 250GB / month of transfer. How much is that?
STORAGE: 1000 GB x $0.093 = $93.00 TRANSFER: 1000 GB x $0.120 = $120.00
TOTAL: $213.00
I should note the above does not include any servers which will actually run the websites.
Lets compare this to hosting your own (ie - dedicated):
I have a 1.5 TB RAID-I server with 1.8 TB transfer per month on a 100MB port on a month-to-month contract.
STORAGE: 1.5TB RAID-I TRANSFER: 1.8TB
Total : $123.00 / month
It is a 8-core xeon with 4GB RAM -- I run a LAPP stack with 6 Cores dedicated to ffmpeg and image conversions. Waayyyy faster than cloud.
This is more of a hosting and infrastructure question. I recommend bringing this question to the community at webhostingtalk.com.
Yes, you will have to grow into these numbers, but that can happen pretty quickly.