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Loading ...I’m sure that there was a famous telco ad slogan that went something like “the price of calling keeps on falling”. This time it is the price of putting files in the cloud that is going down. From the IT Management and Cloud Blog:
Rackspace/Mosso’s Cloud Files now has a CDN hook similar to Amazon’s new CloudFront. Basically you store data in “Cloud Files” and enable the data for Limelight’s CDN. Then Limelight’s network pulls it from the closest Mosso server, caches the content within their geographically distributed network. The pricing model for “Cloud Files” is 15 cents per GB per month for storage and 22 cent per GB month for bandwidth…
Rackspace are pushing hard into the cloud space (”Rackspace Heads for the Clouds“), and the competition is making off-site storage more and more affordable. If you are distributing lots of large files, it is probably time to get them onto a cloud service and free up some data centre bandwidth. This is a nice round up about Amazon’s CloudFront by Rich Miller (Data Center Knowledge).
I’m sure many of your readers are interested in an easy way to manage their Cloud Files containers and objects .. especially, for those who’d like to have more than one user but don’t want to give out access to their whole admin panel!! There are many options to access Cloud Files by a single user, but we needed a way to create sub accounts, assign containers, etc..
Enter, Cloud9.
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Cloud9 is a new web-based service that allows users, or Web Designers/Programmers, to manage their Cloud Files more easily. It’s accessible, secure and fast. Basically, it improves upon the Mosso Cloud Files manager in these ways:
1) Multiple file uploads!! Up to 20 at a time! No more waiting, file after file, or trying to teach our clients how to use Cyberduck / FireUploader, et al. Easy online access from nearly anywhere.
2) You can create unlimited ‘user’ accounts and give them access only to containers that you assign to them. Unlimited Users, Unlimited Containers.
3) You, as the admin, stay in complete control over the users, containers, objects (files), etc. You have global read/write/delete access.
4) Each user can manage their own objects (files), upload/delete, etc. as well as add containers to their user account without taking up your valuable time.
5) It’s super easy for you and your clients to use.
6) Each file name listed in a container is pre-linked to the file, so using the URL for that file is as easy as, Right Click, Copy Link!
So, be sure to check it out.. it’s pre-launch time and everything is getting the file check off for the launch date… Cloud9 will be issuing a limited number of FREE accounts during the beta phase. After which, the service will start a little above that Venti Mocha Frap you had last week, and will offer plans for different usage limits
Cloud9 Website