Given that Photobucket's homepage indicates they have 15 billion images with 100 million users, that averages out to 150 images per user, so it's possible most people won't hit this limit. Which leads us to determine that if you host less than 100 files it is cheaper to host your files on S3 than it is on Photobucket. With these numbers, now the formula looks more like this: Management expectation (Mg) - Since AWS calculates Management Costs per the Million objects, let's just assume the lowest costs for now, or $0.0025 + $0.10 + $0.01 or $0.1035.I think this is high but you can do your math. Let's say every file gets called 100 times a day on average. This can be highly variable but we can make some assumptions here. # of Requests (Re) - Average number of requests on our files.Total Number of Files (Tf) - This is the variable we are looking to find.Average File size (Av) - The average 1080P JPG on my computer hovers around 300KB, but for internet images let's cut that in half to 150KB average.To put together the formula we need the following information: Monthly Storage Cost + Cost to put and replace files in S3 + Cost of Monthly Request + Monthly Management Costs + Monthly Transfer Bandwidth <= $33.25 ($399/12)

To make things easy for us we can use averages for file sizes and all, but again feel free to plug in your own details if you know them. Since we know the cost of Photobucket's service ($399) we can work backwards to figure out what the upper limit of images would be to break even hosting out of S3 host anything less than this number and you save money. We're going to assume the Northern Virginia region, but you can plug your preferred region's pricing into the model if you choose to go a different route. Comparing Photobucket Plus500 and AWS S3įirst we need to examine S3's pricing model. So, in that vein I want to offer both a cost justification for why S3 is a better solution than the $399 Plus500 subscription and a brief tutorial on how to migrate. I also posit that S3 is also cheaper for the vast majority of people using Photobucket. While some sites have offered lists of alternate hosting providers or build-your-own host solutions, I tend to think simple and to me nothing is simpler than AWS S3 right now. Their customer service response so far has been, well, lacking:īut instead of bashing Photobucket I come bearing an alternative. On June 30th they decided to disable cross-linking for users who were not members of their Plus500 subscription without any real notice. Welp, Photobucket went and alienated a large chunk of its user community in one broad stroke.

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