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By: Coghead on AWS: The SaaS Ecosystem Expands | K E K U [alpha]

Coghead on AWS: The SaaS Ecosystem Expands | K E K U [alpha] — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:23:51 +0000

[...] the Coghead Affiliate Program, which provides system integrators, value-added resellers, and web tycoon wannabes an easy way to build and sell web applications using a SaaS model. Coghead affiliates build [...]

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Coghead on AWS: The SaaS Ecosystem Expands - GigaOM — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:00:44 +0000

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Bungee Offers an IDE for the Web «

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Bungee Offers an IDE for the Web « — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:00:28 +0000

[...] webware. Here at Web Worker Daily, we’re bullish on tools and infrastructure that will bring web tycoonhood within reach of the masses; Bungee looks like a strong contender in that [...]

By: John Phillips

John Phillips — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:05:08 +0000

We have created a nice little site called kitakitz. We have great ranking and getting better all the time, huge page views per visitor (30+) BUT how can we implement a unique experience for the visitor. We want to create our own version of MP3 Players and snippets. Can we do that with S3?

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A Myspace Future for Web Applications: Attack of the Clones « Neomeme — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:38:13 +0000

[...] Attack of the Clones Posted January 26, 2007 Web Worker Daily has an interesting post about how new web services like Amazon S3 are redefining the web development landscape by providing [...]

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jarango » links for 2007-01-25 — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:36:33 +0000

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By: evanx

evanx — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:26:59 +0000

surely everyone running websites and what-not use hosting providers like rackspace et al. I understand that amazon’s model is different (charging per hour rather than month, and being webservices based), but is it that different to just renting your dedicated server(s) at the end of the day?

By: Tom Mornini

Tom Mornini — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:05:13 +0000

Gubbi:

My company is 100% focused on Rails application deployment.

By: Ken Girard

Ken Girard — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:22:24 +0000

At the same time I do feel that I need to defend TiddlySpot. It is a 100% free service that even encourages you to keep a copy of your files locally, as well as online. If you don’t like the service, or feel that it is no longer right for you, then take your files and go home.

Disclaimer: I have spend most of the last year playing with TiddlyWiki, and answering peoples questions about it, so I might just be a little biased.

By: Anne Zelenka

Anne Zelenka — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:31:43 +0000

Thanks for the correction, Ken. I could probably have written the entire sentence more clearly–but yes, I was attempting to list hosted services not just wiki platforms.

By: Ken Girard

Ken Girard — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:17:16 +0000

OK, that should have been TiddlySpot.com.

By: Ken Girard

Ken Girard — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:15:35 +0000

TiddlyWiki is a single file wiki which you can have on the net, jumpdrive or harddrive. I think what you meant was , which is a site that lets you host TiddlyWiki files on the net for free.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:04:25 +0000

37signals announced Bezos’ investment in their company last year. I started noticing s3.amazon.com URLs in any file links in Basecamp a short while back.

By: Ryan Garver

Ryan Garver — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:47:34 +0000

Yes--there are some differences deploying on these machines. We run one of two websites I know that tries to address this issue. Our site is AWS-Console.com. You might also want to check out Enomalism.com which was featured on Amazon's blog a few days ago. We both have screencasts and content on our site explaining where we are focusing. On a personal note, while EC2 and S3 expose more complicated deployment factors, they end up creating very interesting problems to solve. Furthermore, I can see many other large companies that have developed internal infrastructure to solve similar problems start offering similar services. As a result, I think the problems common to these types of environments won't be going away anytime soon.

By: Gubbi

Gubbi — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:40:25 +0000

Amazon Web Services is great, especially S3. But deploying for example, a Rails web app, where the source code will have to be put on their machines, would be risky.

What are the popular ways used to deploy such applications?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:10:46 +0000

Very interesting – particulary (for me) the use of S3 by SmugMug for their storage. I had no idea S3 was so reliable and used on such a large scale by third party companies.

I’m planning a product at the moment that needs very reliable online storage – I think I’ll look into S3 further. Thanks for the article.

Does anyone know of any other websites using S3?