How to get Amazon S3 video and audio hosting for free?

December 8, 2010

If you have any videos, audios or files in large sizes online, you’re probably using Amazon’s S3 service to host these files. And with good reason. It’s fast, reliable and secure.

Plus, at first, it seems pretty cheap too. Until you start having a LOT of files hosted and streaming online – for example, lots of people watching your videos. That’s when you realize Amazon S3 is NOT the affordable solution you thought it was – in fact, byte for byte it’s one of the most expensive storage solutions online!

It’s true. Read this excerpt:

I just did the math on what using S3 instead of my current business class shared hosting plan would cost me for one of my audio streaming sites.

I have around 10-15GBs of data which gets rotated regularly, so nothing is kept around for longer than around two months. With the amount of traffic I get, around 70GBs per month, and the number hits I get, I still pay less for my business class shared hosting plan than I would pay for S3.

And I also have full shell access and scriptability.

To top it off my plan actually covers 1TB traffic a month, so my site could scale up to 12 times traffic-wise before I would need to upgrade my account. At that cross-over point Amazon S3 would still be 54% more expensive than my current solution.

This might not apply to everyone, but in my case getting S3 would be plain dumb.

You probably never took the time to do the math, so you probably never even thought about it like this, right? But what if you never had to worry about the price? What if I showed you a way to get full Amazon S3 for free?

Same speed, reliability and security – without the high cost?

Grab your Invite code before it expires: http://clicklinkto.com/at/GetuQast

You can thank me later

Even if you’re not streaming a lot of files now, if you plan to grow your business you will in the future. So why not position yourself to host your files for free and save that extra money for growing your business?

It’s easier to start your business right, right now – than it is to try to take the time to fix it later. Trust me.

I just did the math myself and I was surprised

Amazon makes their S3 service sound so cheap but when you really add it all up it’s one of the most expensive hosting/sharing solutions anywhere! Take this example:

If a 150MB is downloaded 100 times it would cost $2.59. If it was downloaded 1000 times it would cost $25.55. Is that cheap? Not really. And that’s not even counting the cost of hosting the file. In fact, when I started digging around I found there are a LOT of people online talking about this very issue.

Sure Amazon S3 is fast, reliable and secure but when you start hosting and sharing a lot of files the cost adds up quickly.

But what if there was a way to get the very same Amazon S3 speed, reliability and security – for FREE? You don’t pay a hosting cost? Or bandwidth cost? Nothing?

This is where I’ll be moving all MY files, just click the link to activate your Invite code:

http://clicklinkto.com/at/GetuQast

You can’t beat free. And when your business grows and you have a lot of audios, videos and downloads online you will thank me when you don’t have that BIG Amazon S3 bill to pay.

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