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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by noonespecial on Friday January 20, 2012 @09:08AM (#3489486)
Last month's transfer (if everyone who clicked the link finished the DL) would have been more than $100 on S3. Its just a hobby. I really was hoping not to spend much if anything on it.
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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by philjohn on Friday January 20, 2012 @09:31AM (#3489546)
You can mark items in S3 as requester pays, which means you don't get hit for bandwidth.
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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by __alexs on Friday January 20, 2012 @09:46AM (#3489596)
And that no one downloads your files.
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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by JoachimSchipper on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:37AM (#3489775)
Depending on where you are, but: OVH is known to offer dedicated servers with very generous bandwidth allotments for very little money. E.g. their Dutch budget brand http://www.isgenoeg.nl offers a basic server with 5TB, then 10Mbps bandwidth for EUR 15/month, and their UK http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ is similar.

(No personal experience, offer seems valid for nationals only, WebHostingTalk suggests there's little support, OVH apparently change their upstream providers all the time to get the best possible deals - you get a lot of bandwidth but latency varies from day to day. Seems acceptable for a simple file server.)

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by pavel_lishin on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:08AM (#3489677)
> Its just a hobby.

Why not set up a server at home? If I hadn't turned off my desktop this morning, I could rsync data from home.

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Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload by anamax on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:55AM (#3489869)
(1) TOS for his home connection may forbid offering services. (Yes, he could pay more but ....)

(2) the hassle of running a server.

(3) he may not have much upload bandwidth, which translates to slow downloads by other people.

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