How to reduce your Amazon S3 bill(labnol.org)

49 pointsby boundlessdreamz18 anni fa10 comments

http://www.labnol.org/internet/lower-amazon-s3-bill-improve-website-loading-time/5193/

10 comments

Besides the information on this article there's also a lot more information on how to reduce your bill and serve your site way faster on this one > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=352695

waleedka18 anni fa

You also get a big performance boost when you use the cache-control headers properly. Because you'll be saving the browser having to connect to the server to check if the file changed, and if you have many js, css, and image file, then you'd be saving a lot of round-trips.

vlad18 anni fa

I thought the point of a web startup is to figure out ways to increase your hosting bills... :)

slice18 anni fa

AFAIK, one of the browsers (probably IE), ignores query parameters on css and js files and will not refresh foo.css?v=2 if it has foo.css?v=1 in its cache.

ivank18 anni fa

I've never seen this behavior anywhere.

jws18 anni fa

I am told by someone with a high volume, consumer site that there are proxies in use that strip the query parameter from URLs that they guess are images. They are rare, but they caused him to put the serial number in the file name. (This was several years ago, I don't know if these proxies still exist.)

ivank18 anni fa

Facebook would probably confirm that this still happens. They switched from simple ?cachebreakers to:

http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/zD9BP/lpkg/rjg2jdf2/en_U...

callmeed18 anni fa

Thanks for posting this, very useful.

One of our services relies heavily on S3 for image storage.

geuis18 anni fa

These tips are definitely useful for S3-based apps, but are also very informative in general. Thanks a lot for the article.

jcapote18 anni fa

Great article.