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Re:So you’re thinking about self-publishing an I.T. book? by gte910h on Monday March 21, 2011 @11:20AM (#2350109)
>Couldn't you do about the same with some cheap shared hosting?

Hit Events, i.e. your item is suddenly a hit, come fast and die fast many times. If you're not scalable, when you do get hit with a publicity event, your infrastructure can melt and then you miss out on a huge majority of sales.

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Re:So you’re thinking about self-publishing an I.T. book? by code_duck on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @01:35AM (#2358192)
Sure, I understand that I guess. My question is whether the demands on the servers hosting the OP's book ever met the level where S3 was really necessary or not. It doesn't really sound like it did, judging from the numbers.
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