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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by samwillis on Thursday March 06, 2014 @10:53AM (#7354417)
I would love to see DO or Linode do a S3 type service as well. I prefer the persistent virtualization of DO and Linode to EC2 but also want to use a nice quick persistent file store that isn't on my own slice.

I could just use S3 from Linode but that would result more paid bandwidth and increased latency.

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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by t0mas88 on Thursday March 06, 2014 @01:45PM (#7355708)
Rackspace Cloud has both persistent disks for VMs (on SSDs in RAID 10, so fast and reliable) and an S3 like storage system called Cloud Files. Sounds like that's the combination you want?
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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by hackerboos on Saturday March 08, 2014 @04:42AM (#7364755)
They do hourly billing as well which Linode is missing.
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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by thu on Thursday March 06, 2014 @11:00AM (#7354467)
Shameless plug: I have started https://reesd.com/. Not the S3 protocol, simply scp.
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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by royjacobs on Thursday March 06, 2014 @12:08PM (#7354989)
How would you go ahead mounting this, though? SSHFS?
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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by thu on Friday March 07, 2014 @10:22AM (#7360693)
I don't know exactly what I have to implement to support SSHFS. But really in my mind a service like Reesd (or S3) is used through a networked API to read and write files, not through an exposed file system (although sure it can be exposed that way, just that it is not the "philosophy"). E.g. if you implement a music streaming service, you would access mp3 through say a REST API, not on disk, before streaming them.
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Re:DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M From Andreessen Horowitz to Ta... by IBalic on Friday March 07, 2014 @03:00AM (#7359004)
Second that. This is what still keeps me at AWS.
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