: Cloud just for hosting big files? I need a solution to store my big files (50MB+ each). Currently I am using an European dedicated server (100MBits) with 8000GB/month at 60 USD. I would like

@Cofer257

You're trying to compare apples to a multi-national supplier of apples and get the latter for the same price as a crate of apples.

Amazon's CloudFront offers geographical distribution, tons of fault tolerance, and redundancy. If a drive crashes, your data is probably safe. If the US goes under water, it could be safe as well.

With your current solution, if your data center loses power, you might have access to your data. You didn't mention anything about fault tolerance with your existing configuration, so I am assuming there is none.

You won't find something that utilizes hundreds (thousands?) of servers for the same price as something that utilizes one server, unless you have very minimal requirements in terms of bandwidth and storage.

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@Shelton105

really depends what your looking for - download wise, how often the files would be accessed. A simple free solution that you could try is putting them up onto drop box and share the public download link ?

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