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Need Help with Amazon S3 and/or Altrntive for delivering big file media containing products

by wordwizard
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Hi Fellow Warriors,

I need some help.

I've acquired resell rights for humongous products and can't figure out the logistics of how to actually sell them since they'd probably blow up my server (if I get lucky and actually sell a bunch of them anyway).

I can't figure out Amazon S3 -- there's no support unless I pay for an expensive upgrade, and it's geared towards much fancier things than what I want to do. And the explanations aren't basic enough to make sense and are generally for stuff I don't even want or need.

I use cyberduck (Mac) for FTP and would like to use that if possible.

Does anyone know of an easy how-to video or ebook on how to actually upload stuff, arrange it there, and
arrange for download when someone buys something, preferably without everybody else being able to get to it?

Or do you have other and/or better suggestions for how to deliver large audio or video collections?

Thanks so much.

Elisabeth
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Anderson
    Cyberduck is supposed to work with s3:

    Cyberduck | FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Rackspace Cloud Files & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac OS X | About

    I searched a bit but was not able to find any tutorials on it though. The main thing you need to be aware of is that when you manage your s3 files you will need to set their permissions for read etc so that people can download and view them. You should be able to do this from within cyberduck
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    • Profile picture of the author wordwizard
      Thanks Josh. I just wish I knew how to get in there to the place where I need to set the permissions ;-)

      I'll have to give it try with a small file and see...

      Elisabeth


      Originally Posted by Josh Anderson View Post

      Cyberduck is supposed to work with s3:

      Cyberduck | FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Rackspace Cloud Files & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac OS X | About

      I searched a bit but was not able to find any tutorials on it though. The main thing you need to be aware of is that when you manage your s3 files you will need to set their permissions for read etc so that people can download and view them. You should be able to do this from within cyberduck
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  • Profile picture of the author Wilson Mattos
    Elisabeth,

    I highly recommend the S3Fox plugin for Firefox. It is free and works well for uploading content to Amazon's S3.

    I am thinking of putting together a webinar on using the S3 service. It is really cool, but to be honest most people don't know how to use it.

    Wil
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    • Profile picture of the author wordwizard
      Thanks for the suggestion, Wil.

      If cyberduck doesn't get the job done, I'll give S3Fox a try.
      I hesitate with firefox plugins because last time I tried a
      plugin (Alexa plugin) it slowed down and kept crashing
      firefox so much I had to remove it again. But maybe this
      one is different.

      About your webinar though.. any chance you can do that
      really soon?

      Thanks!

      Elisabeth

      Originally Posted by Wilson Mattos View Post

      Elisabeth,

      I highly recommend the S3Fox plugin for Firefox. It is free and works well for uploading content to Amazon's S3.

      I am thinking of putting together a webinar on using the S3 service. It is really cool, but to be honest most people don't know how to use it.

      Wil
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  • Profile picture of the author roddaut
    There's someone running a WSO that addresses your question. Here's the link:

    http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...in-1-hour.html

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