Amazon = Awesome company.

Another thumbs up for Amazon from me. Been using prime this month for a few orders and couldn't fault them. One of the products I had ordered was faulty, so I opened a return request and was given the option of dropping it off at a collect+ location, hitch happened to be my local newsagents. Dropped it off and had a full redund an hour later!

I tend to buy everything I can from there these days. They have great customer service and decent prices. I especially love the new add on products that are dirt cheap!

AWS has been awesome too. I get our entire servers backed up twice a day for less than £10 a month. Going to be giving CloudFront a try soon as well as my bandwidth usage has quadrupled since dropping cloudflare.
 
I love Amazon. I also have Prime, which I never get a refund for because it costs me less to pay for that than it does for all the postage costs I would have :D I've dealt with the customer service a few times and they've always been superb, happy to help and extremely dedicated.
 
Mouth said:
I use CloudFlare for DNS only. Price = $0.00 ;)
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For DNS only its fine (except for the outage a month or so ago). For everything else, the free plan is pretty rubbish. We switched away from it last month due to people constantly getting the 'site offline' notice (with a big ass cloudflare logo on it) when our server had 100% uptime. Others have had the same issue with them.

It works wonders for bandwidth, since switching away from cloudflare our bandwidth has gone up to around 300GB a month (in comparison it was around 10GB a month prior to that) however thats not enough of a reason to keep using it, especially when bandwidth is next to free these days anyway.
 
RickM said:
For DNS only its fine (except for the outage a month or so ago). For everything else, the free plan is pretty rubbish.
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Yup, only have it for DNS purposes. Even before the problems arose I would never have used it for web traffic.
 
MattW said:
You don't even have to have a subdomain on your own site.

I set out CloudFront over the weekend, and it literally took me 10 minutes to get it all set up.

This is the header response from one of my avatars now
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Rather than go OT in this thread, drop me a PC, and I'll talk you though exactly what I did and how I did it.
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Thanks! I remotely remembering trying to set it up, got confused and quit. I might have been trying to do something else though. Amazon offers a wide variety of services to webmasters.
 
DRE said:
Thanks! I remotely remembering trying to set it up, got confused and quit. I might have been trying to do something else though. Amazon offers a wide variety of services to webmasters.
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If you want me to sort that for you, just poke me on skype or drop a PC ;)
 
DRE said:
See that's the part that confuses me. You put the gif on your server in the static folder subdomain right, so when someone tries to view it, it creates a copy on amazon's cloudfront server? and then when they view the gif it is not from your own subdomain but from amazon's cloudfront server?
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As someone mentioned you don't have to make a subdomain. AWS will give you a URL that you put into the config.php file and your properties config value to enable the CDN for JS, CSS and images.

I however like my static content URLs to use the .net just to make them look pretty. But you don't have to do that at all. Here is an example domain that AWS provides you: d3058g44udw6fm.cloudfront.net

Not to pretty, but doesn't really matter to be honest. I would just give it a try and post up your problems as you go through the setup process. I am sure we can walk you through your issues. ;)
 
You're better off just using the CloudFront domain, anyway. If your site is setting cookies on the top-level domain, then you're re-transmitting those cookies with each request if you use a sub-domain. Also, it's generally a good idea to host/serve user generated content from another domain.

And ditto, on Amazon.com customer service. Nothing but good experiences there. Only one other company outclasses them in that department, in my mind, and that's Zappos -- though, ironically, they're owned by Amazon now too.
 
Slavik said:
If you want me to sort that for you, just poke me on skype or drop a PC ;)
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robdog said:
As someone mentioned you don't have to make a subdomain. AWS will give you a URL that you put into the config.php file and your properties config value to enable the CDN for JS, CSS and images.

I however like my static content URLs to use the .net just to make them look pretty. But you don't have to do that at all. Here is an example domain that AWS provides you: d3058g44udw6fm.cloudfront.net

Not to pretty, but doesn't really matter to be honest. I would just give it a try and post up your problems as you go through the setup process. I am sure we can walk you through your issues. ;)
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Jason said:
You're better off just using the CloudFront domain, anyway. If your site is setting cookies on the top-level domain, then you're re-transmitting those cookies with each request if you use a sub-domain. Also, it's generally a good idea to host/serve user generated content from another domain.

And ditto, on Amazon.com customer service. Nothing but good experiences there. Only one other company outclasses them in that department, in my mind, and that's Zappos -- though, ironically, they're owned by Amazon now too.
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Shouldn't this guide by xFrocks be enough? https://xfrocks.com/other/threads/howto-xenforo-attachments-via-amazon-s3-and-cloudflare.59/
 
I shop on Amazon more than I would like to admit. I got an Amazon Student membership just this February and couldn't be happier--it's already paid for itself in terms of shipping costs, and Amazon Instant is a nice perk. :)

As for small business, I buy a lot of used books from Amazon, a lot of them are listed on their marketplace by independent bookstores. I think that's great for a small business that might not have the resources to set up their own online shop--they can just list through amazon.
 
Amazon is indeed awesome... Once I ordered a couple of books to be shipped to India from US. Somehow the shipment got lost in transit. I contacted support thinking that a long troublesome process to get a refund would ensue... but to my pleasant surprise, it took just one message from me and they refunded me within a week.
 
I like Amazon services - I buy a lot of books as a scholar in specialist areas and I am also preparing to publish my own books. Services are great.
But I am unhappy they are one of the big companies known to evade taxes here in the UK.
 

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