Sissle Description
 

Sissle and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) work in conjunction. The Amazon S3 service provides a farm of interconnected servers with location in the United States and Europe. If a file is sent to Amazon S3 it is stored on multiple servers and multiple sites to ensure complete reliability. Amazon S3 charges for storing files $0.15 - $0.18 (US - EU) per GB per month plus transfer charges of $0.10 data in and $0.17 data out. Full details at http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ .

Amazon S3 does not provide client software to communicate between user and Amazon S3.
Sissle is a client program which provides this communication. Sissle lives in your PC and communicates with Amazon S3 through the internet. Sissle is purchased with a one of payment.

Your Payments will be = "One of for Sissle" + "Monthly Payments to Amazon S3 "

Examples

All prices are in US Dollars

Storage in US

No. Files File Type Total Loading Cost No. Downloads / month

Amount / month

 Downloading Cost / month Storage / month
1000 Photos (2mb) 2GB 0.20 200 400 MB 0.068 0.30
2000 Documents(100KB) 200MB 0.02 100 10MB 0.0017 0.030
      0.22     0.0697 0.33

Total $ 0.6197

Storage in Europe

No. Files File Type Total Loading Cost No. Downloads / month

Amount / month

 Downloading Cost / month Storage / month
1000 Photos (2mb) 2GB 0.20 200 400 MB 0.068 0.36
20 Movies (1GB) 20 GB 2.0 100 100 GB 18.0 3.6
      4.2     18.068 3.96

Total $26.228

Notes:

If you live in Europe you can store your information in the US and vice versa.

Case 1: The total $ 0.6197 is for the first month and I would be surprised if you require to store another 2000 documents in the second month, say 20, but maybe you are a keen photographer and produce another 200 the following month. Crunch the numbers.

Case 2: The total $26.2 is again for the first month but in this case you provide the movies of your family for your family and you may wish to replace or add more movies. This could get expensive but compare it to buying 100 DVD's, burning them and posting them. Maybe your films are not so interesting as you think and you don't get 100 downloads. There is nothing stopping you charging for the downloads, and so it goes on.

My own personal mix is nearer case 1 and has built up to maybe 500 photographs and 40,000 documents. Initially my monthly bills were $0.05 rising to my current $0.46 last month. There is no minimum monthly fee and my $0.05 was converted into a correct Euro amount (I am in Germany) again with no additions

Again for full details visit http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ .

For instance I have ignored

From Amazon site

Requests

  • $0.01 per 1,000 PUT , COPY, POST , or LIST requests
  • $0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests *
* No charge for delete requests

End from Amazon site

On my 40,000 documents this means 40 * $0.01 = $0.4 to load them in 1 month above what I have quoted above
and if I download them all this would add another 4 * $0.01 = $ 0.04 above the costs quoted above.
Thus my reason for ignoring them, but there are users of Amazon S3 with over 10 Million files stored there.

  

 


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