Brief S3stat Plug

In keeping with the tradition of plugging services that do things for me, I'm going to write a quick post about how cool Amazon S3 is, now that we've moved most of the J-List image hosting over to it. And since S3 is designed to accept plug-in features from other providors, the fine folks at http://www.s3stat.com, a service that lets me track the data going through the S3 "buckets" (a server paradigm I am still getting used to) is a really good service. Basically it gives you a way to see all the data, look for trends, really nice webmasters in China who hotlink your content and cost you $7000 extra a year in server fees. and so on. Bottom line, if you run a website that gets any bandwidth at all, or if you want a way to send big files to people, S3 and services like S3stat are highly recommend-able. There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's been totally worth it, so far.