Dreamhost or Amazon Cloud?

I can't say about your particular situation, but you can set up an S3/Cloudfront distribution for free, you just need an Amazon account and to sign up for AWS. Then you can answer the question with your own files. Obviously you start paying if you distribute a lot but i think the free tier is 50 GB a month, thats enough to check it out.

I'm just now singing up to try out Amazon AWS to use S3 and CloudFront. It looks sort of complicated, like way over my head, but we'll see how it goes...

get the free s3 browser. Even the pro edition is cheap. When the AWS control panel first came out it was pretty bad. But now there is even a AWS app. But S3 browser is still my choice. Once you have an s3 account it's easy to setup cloudfront for video and/or graphics. Both applications will set it up for you using the s3 bucket you created. You can also associate your domain with it as well depending on your domain service. but a CDN is a CDN so while there may be better and worse I would be looking at other things as to the cause of slowness

"Komag" wrote:
I'm just now singing up to try out Amazon AWS to use S3 and CloudFront. It looks sort of complicated, like way over my head, but we'll see how it goes...

You can set it up on your AWS account page. Go to S3 and create/name a bucket. Upload your files to the bucket. Then go to Cloudfront and make a new distribution. You set the S3 bucket as the source for the distribution. The distribution takes a few minutes to go live - you'll get a domain name like - ACB122345689.cloudfront.net so your files would be at ACB122345689.cloudfront.net/folderyoumade/yourfiles.jpg. The only thing that hung me up was that you need to click on your files in the S3 bucket and explicitly make them "public" by right-clicking and selecting that option.

Ahh, I see that now it has added "Everyone" in the Open/Download permissions for my test file, thanks for the tip!

And NML, I'll look into those apps, but my usage will be so simple I may not need anything special.

Working great for my background music, loads much faster than my Dropbox!

So the S3 link by itself is an https link, but the CloudFront link is just http - should I try to figure out how to make it https for any reason?
With http I don't have to do these lines in my getSong(songVar AS STRING, url AS STRING, location AS STRING) function:

	audio[songVar].SetCertificatesFile("common:/certs/ca-bundle.crt")
	audio[songVar].AddHeader("X-Roku-Reserved-Dev-Id", "")
	audio[songVar].InitClientCertificates()

But is there some advantage to doing https if I can?

Should be fine if you just use http on the s3 https. Works for me.