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Amazon S3 or Personal Server for data storage?

I currently have a budget of a few thousand pounds (GBP) to get a small-scale file hosting project up and running. I had planned to use Amazon S3 for hosting the files that users upload, however this results in having to pay for every byte of space I'm taking up (which is both good and bad, of course). Given that both security and speed are major factors here, would it be wise to stick with S3 or to do things via my own server?

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Personally, I'd use EC2 rather than my own server. Depending on your needs, S3 might be a reasonable choice for content storage, or you could just store it on the server using an EBS volume. Yes, you pay for usage, but your budget can get you a lot of usage, without the hassle of "the network in my basement just went down."

Amazon provides a pricing calculator that might help: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

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