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[dvduval]

Originally Posted by leon234

What do you mean it is not for you but for hundreds of customers? I am a little confused because earlier on you said you are looking to host some of your own personal music files.

I mean hundreds of users will buy my app, then buy hosting, and then store music files. It might not be a huge number of files (unless they want to upgrade their hosting), but I want to know a safe "starter host" where they will be safe to do this. They probably would need at least 250 mb of storage.

[ufhosting_Leon]

I am not entirely sure what the service is you are offering, but have you considered Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing you get 5gb of storage for free if you are just after storing data/music for your app. It is what Dropbox use as far as I am aware.

[dvduval]

Originally Posted by leon234

I am not entirely sure what the service is you are offering, but have you considered Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing you get 5gb of storage for free if you are just after storing data/music for your app. It is what Dropbox use as far as I am aware.

Ok, so sounds like I would want to provide instructions to the users of the app how to setup their own S3. Is there a good guide for this somewhere that is easy for an average webmaster to understand?