Hi,
I'm looking for an online simple storage service like Amazon's that is free. It doesn't have to be that reliable, fast or well documented.
It can also be a "free" version, like up to 10 Mb of storage. I need it for a very small file.
I was thinking about something like rapidshare but with a REST / RPC interface.
Is there anything like this?
Thanks!
Microsoft Live services give you free space. Sky Drive http://skydriveapiclient.codeplex.com/
You need to take a look at the Google App engine. You can even run PHP on it http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/run-php-on-the-google-app-engine/
The free "hosting" in App Engine is allocated 500 MB of persistent storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million page views a month.
You can easily put images here and serve static content without any problems.
Generally, there's no such thing as free. But you might want to look into Diomede (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/27/diomede-offers-green-file-storage-in-the-cloud-for-a-fraction-of-the-cost/). They offer a service comparable to S3, but a lot cheaper, but not as available, fast, etc...
With a programmatic interface. But not free. For freely storing a limited amount of freely accessible content with a REST interface, you could create a free SVN account at OpenSVN or Google Code.
Check out http://www.eucalyptus.com/ it is an open source implementation of EC2 and S3. You can deploy the software on your own server or use there free test account to get started.
10MB on Amazon S3 will cost you $0.0015 per month.
... in addition, it is "reliable, fast and well documented."
All you need is to provide a valid credit card on registration - which will not get charged, because the service will be "too cheap to meter" (Source).
Windows Azure is Microsoft's solution.
However would require you developing your applications in .NET.