i'm currently playing with amazon EC2 and S3 for data and ressources. I found that Adrian Holovty used S3 for chicagocrime.org http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2006/04/07/0927/?highlight=s3
2007/5/7, Kyle Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 1) We found S3 to be a bit slow, both upstream and down. Upstream is > slow largely because of the SOAP overhead (from what I understand), > and we were sending lots of data (about 5 resized images for each > image uploaded to django). Downstream, well, not much you can do > about that, regardless of how you set up you models. We simply stored > the image's S3 key in the database, and used that when constructing > get_absolute_url(). > > 2) I'm not sure you can do this. When you say you want to have a > connection with the service, are you referring to a connection using > the S3 python library? I'm not sure how you would create a global, > persistant connection to S3, which is what I assume you want. We > simple made a wrapper class around S3, and added a add_to_bucket() > function to our user's profile model that used the S3 wrapper class. > Again, this seemed reasonably fast, the bottleneck was not around > managing the connection to S3, but the actual upload to S3 itself. > > Kyle. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
