Amazon AWS s3 ec2 / Google App Engine / Media Temple / Mosso CloudFS Comparison

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:54:00 -0400

	AWS s3 ec2	Google App Engine	Media Temple gs	Mosso CouldFS
Scalability	Upgrade ECU or Deploy new instances	Pay extras
OS	Any	Python - Universal	Linux	Linux / Windows
Other uses / extensibility	Complete flexibility Requires additional deployments	Requires Python and GQL	Easy to install additional applications
Resources	$0.10 - Small Instance (Default): 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform	Free for 500Mb of data and 5MM views/month	100 GBs of premium storage 1 TB of short-path bandwidth 100 unique sites / alternate domains 64MB Ruby/Mongrel container 1,000 GPUs 100 databases 1,000 email addresses	$50 Gb of SAN storage 500 Gb 10,000 compute cycles
Pricing	Storage $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used Data Transfer $0.100 per GB - all data transfer in $0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out Requests $0.01 per 1,000 PUT, POST, or LIST requests $0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests* * No charge for delete requests Computing $0.10 per CPU hour SimpleDB $1.50/Gb/month	$0.10-0.12 per cpu cycle $0.15-0.18 in BigTable Gb/month $0.09-0.13 transfer Gb/month	Base: $20/month $2.56 per additional transfer GB $0.10 per additional GPU	Base: $100/month $0.25 per transfer GB $0.50 per storage GB $0.01 per CPU cycle MS-SQL $5/100Mb/month
Practical Rating (1-10)	7	5	8	9

Facebook officially the largest social network

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:05:00 -0400

Facebook has official surpassed MySpace in terms of monthly unique visitors. In April 2008, both monsters attracted 115 million people a month. Media Trends, Alexa, Google Trends, all confirm it.

Facebook's growth was mostly internationally. MySpace is still dominates Facebook in the U.S. market, with 72 million monthly uniques. Facebook has 36 million monthly uniques, up from 23 million a year ago.

In other markets like the U.K., Facebook outgrew MySpace last year and is over double its size today.

Rob Gonda's Blog - Trends

Amazon AWS s3 ec2 / Google App Engine / Media Temple / Mosso CloudFS Comparison

Facebook officially the largest social network