Entries tagged "amazon s3"

Amazon S3 Outages

Posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 9:54 AM Comments (1)

I, like a lot of others, make use of the Amazon S3 service for data storage "in the cloud". The service is a huge success and normally behaves extremely stable.

Yesterday there was a very large S3 outage which caused many online companies to suffer outages as well. There was an interesting piece over at ReadWriteWeb asking "How Much Is To Much?".

I've been using S3 for nearly 2 years and have only experienced trouble twice. I wrote about the previous experience and that outage lasted about 3 hours. Yesterday however the outage was more than 6 hours!

Now ...

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What Powers SmartJabber

Posted on Apr 22, 2008 - 3:31 PM Comments (0)

I've had some inquiries to what powers SmartJabber, so I decided to write up a quick outline of the technology that is being used to power the new service.

In case you hadn't heard yet, I recently launched a new company called SmartJabber. The general idea behind the service is to offer an automated support agent via a "live chat" window. It's a cheap alternative to hiring someone to do basic live chat support.

The tool can be used to convert visitors into customers, save sales or offer a basic level of customer service (say on an ...

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Dealing With Business Emergencies

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 - 1:04 PM Comments (0)

Fun morning for me today. I use Amazon S3 service for storage of various files, including the static media for most of my websites. This morning there was a major outage across the AWS farm. After noticing the errors I began to scramble to figure out what was going on. Obviously the issue was on the remote side (Amazon) so I had to sit and wait it out.

The outage seemed to last about 3 hours (for me, others are still reporting issues.) While S3 is an awesome service and very affordable, this shows that nothing is fail proof. Even ...

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Django, metaWeblog and Amazon S3

Posted on Jun 6, 2007 - 11:11 AM Comments (1)

This is a quick write up about adding support for Amazon S3 to your Django weblog. I added support for metaWeblog API by using the this write up from All Your Pixel. Most, if not all, blogging clients support the metaWeblog API so I think it was a good choice.

Why use Amazon S3?


  • It's super cheap (probably cost you less than $1/mo)

  • Performance is improved by moving static media away from your Django/Apache instance.

  • Amazon worries about managing and scaling the storage back end.


First off, let's edit the settings.py that is in your ...

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