[liberationtech] S3 alternative?

[James Moore]

Martin, DreamHost in California currently offers S3-compatible object storage (currently $0.04 / GB) and is in the process of rolling out a computing platform similar to Heroku. They’re extremely friendly to non-profits and other do-gooders so I bet they’d be interested in hearing from you.

Good Luck!

	James

On Mar 5, 2014, at 7:31 PM, Martin Johnson <greatfire at greatfire.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> We are running unblockable mirrors of some websites that are blocked in China. They are unblockable because:
> 	• They cannot be blocked by DNS poisoning or IP blocking without also bringing down all other content on the same host (s3.amazonaws.com).
> 	• They cannot be blocked based on keywords because they are accessed over HTTPS.
> An example mirror site:
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/freeweibo./index.html
> The approach works very well but it does mean that we rely on Amazon. Do you know any alternative hosting services which offer the same advantages as S3? Namely:
> 	• Files can be accessed on a general host (not through account-specific subdomains).
> 	• HTTPS is supported.
> Google does offer such a service (Cloud Storage) but it's already blocked in China. Microsoft Azure and Rackspace apparently only support account-specific subdomains.
> 
> Suggestions much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
> 
> Martin
> 
> 马丁·约翰逊 / Martin Johnson
> Founder of GreatFire.org and FreeWeibo.com | PGP key
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