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How To: save on S3 monthly charges and avoid "dude, you've gone about 10000% over your allocated bandwidth" emails from your webhost

OR; Dropbox for web storage?


  1. $ tar -zcvf 2014.tar imagesfarm/2014/
  2. $ scp [email protected]:/the/full_path/to/2014.tar /local/dir/2014.tar
  3. $ tar -xvf 2014.tar
  4. Dropbox.com - upload files to a folder in your Dropbox Public directory
  5. Download the Dropbox Desktop App
  6. Sync the Public folder
  7. define("DROPBOX_PATH", "*your dropbox bath*");
  8. $filepath = strstr($orig_path, '/2014/') ? DROPBOX_PATH . $orig_path : S3_PATH . $orig_path;

2015-09-01