[Tilecache] S3 storage and TileCache

Attila Csipa plists at prometheus.org.yu
Thu Nov 13 15:21:14 EST 2008


On Thursday 13 November 2008 16:00:51 Steven M. Ottens wrote:
> usage of the server running TileCache. My reason to use S3 is because
> we run out of bandwidth at our setup and we assume Amazon has
> slightly more available :)

I think there is a misconception here... S3 gives you storage space, not 
bandwidth. What you want sounds more like multiple EC2 instances that serve 
static content fetched from S3 (and that would be close to a setup that I 
actually use at the moment :)



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