Comments on: MyBlogLog Uses Amazon Web Services for Image Hosting

By: Scott Rafer

Scott Rafer — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:21:42 +0000

MyBlogLog has used Amazon S3 for all its images from the beginning. Mashery, a company that I co-founded in April has its entire enterprise on Amazon S3 and EC2. It’s exactly the way to run a startup. Investing in over-capacity creates a capital inefficiencies that can even kill good startups.

We’re in the process of transitioning MyBlogLog onto Yahoo servers. That will include the images, no matter how big a fan we are of Amazon’s services.

On the latency, S3 had some hickups in November and early December, but the recent troubles have been ours internally. We are getting better each day, but it’s not instantaneous unfortunately.

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:50:42 +0000

Here’s an easy way to looks through all those pix:

http://nakedbrowser.com/?x=&u=http://s3.amazonaws.com/mbl_pic/6.jpg

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:21:59 +0000

Interesting Loren,
btw, this url provides a much better pic than the one you chose, imo.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/mbl_pic/2342.jpg

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:36:47 +0000

I noticed that when the widget started loading slowly. I suspected it was MBL, but good work in uncovering it.

By: Sushubh

Sushubh — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:32:52 +0000

umm. bad idea to post some random image on this website :P

just the hint would have worked!