[BNM] Amazon S3

[Ali]

Thanks Jay - nothing off the shelf then that suits - obviously building a
front end would entail all the gumpf that goes with user account management
in addition to the file management even with free libraries (don't think
paying for this type of integration is part of my friend's thinking and
stuffed if I'm gonna do it) - your initial notion about dreamhost is looking
better all the time - ftp is ready to go.....now wonder if that unlimited
b/w offer still stands.....

-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Jay Caines-Gooby
Sent: 24 September 2008 16:32
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Amazon S3

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Ali <ali at nubz.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> You may recall I asked about solutions for a friend running a record label
> whereby he needs to receive and post large files (up to 1GB) from and to
> different clients
>
> I was recommended a cheap dreamhost shared hosting space with unlimited
b/w
> (thanks Jay) and S3
>
> I passed on the both and my friend likes S3 as it could be free in quiet
> months and is reputable.

The transfer-side of it will be free (no traffic = no traffic-charges)
but he'll still pay a monthly charge for the storage of the files that
are sitting idle.

> Now he says 'how do you use it?' - my initial skim of the documentation
> raises fears that a front end needs developing however it would be nice if
> it worked like:
>
> Create a bucket and user privileges

Buckets are either public or private. You can set an expiring token on
files in private buckets to allow them to be read for a certain amount
of time.

> Install a web form and viewer page into the bucket

You'll need to build a small web app that allows upload and download
of the files and does its own user-authentication to allow known users
to access the files and push stuff into the buckets.

In Rails attachment_fu has an S3 API and it looks like
http://code.google.com/p/php-aws/ will do the do. I'm sure there must
be 3rd-party services that provider a higher-level interface too.

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