: If S3 is going to cost you 00/month -- you can get a full rack with power and managed Internet for close to that at a professionally managed data center. And if you find a data center

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If S3 is going to cost you 00/month -- you can get a full rack with power and managed Internet for close to that at a professionally managed data center. And if you find a data center that does half or quarter racks, you could probably get that down even further.

If you have a web server now, a second "image-data-only" web server, a firewall, and a switch should put you in the 6U range, so a quarter rack should be plenty.

If you have the capital to pickup a couple extra servers, I strongly encourage you to run your own. In the long run it will save you lots of money. This operates on the assumption that you don't require S3 uptime, and since you're gonna run your own web server anyway, I presume that doesn't matter.

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