Can a newbie set up AWS?

[Square Wheels]

Just looking at the pricing page, I have no idea what I am doing.

My site is using 55GB of it's 60GB limit.  I can move to 100GB, but that's another $20 a month.  It's 90% attachments.

Is moving to AWS a good alternative?

Thanks

[sudo]

https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html to play with numbers and check rough costs, just set your region first.

AWS isnt the simplest tbh to get going with but it is powerful.

[Sovereign Grace Singles]

Anyone know how to display the actual S3 bucket size? I can see how many files are in it but nowhere do I see the overall size.

[Sovereign Grace Singles]

4 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

Is moving to AWS a good alternative?

Well besides uploading your files to Amazon which frees up server space the service offers a tremendous performance boost with the Accelerated option enabled.

Currently my S3 service is running me less than a dollar a month. Cloudfront is also pretty cheap. However, Amazon's Elastic search runs me over a hundred a month. Amazon offers some great services.

I do believe there is a free tier to use from Amazon for Elastic Search, besides way better search returns the site is much faster loading.

Once you get everything working right take a peek at @The Old Man product:

But don't take my word for it measure your own performance before and after: https://www.dotcom-tools.com/website-speed-test.aspx?

 

[Joel R]

4 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

Just looking at the pricing page, I have no idea what I am doing.

My site is using 55GB of it's 60GB limit.  I can move to 100GB, but that's another $20 a month.  It's 90% attachments.

Is moving to AWS a good alternative?

Thanks

Yes, your situation is exactly why IPS designed file storage solutions that can connect with Amazon S3 that scales with your community's growth.  

You keep your core files on the server.  You move all of your media attachments to Amazon S3.  

It's fairly easy to set up.  IPS has a help guide for your to follow.  

[Wicked007]

4 hours ago, Joel R said:

Yes, your situation is exactly why IPS designed file storage solutions that can connect with Amazon S3 that scales with your community's growth.  

You keep your core files on the server.  You move all of your media attachments to Amazon S3.  

It's fairly easy to set up.  IPS has a help guide for your to follow.  

could you please point me in this direction .

 

Thanks 

[Daniel F]

32 minutes ago, Wicked007 said:

could you please point me in this direction .

 

Thanks 

 

[AlexWright]

You may also want to check out 

This turned out to be a much cheaper alternative for our site. Cloudfront was running up our budgets because we serve a lot of image content.