Best practices for hosting app binaries for non-App Store macOS apps?
I'm working on a macOS app that will not be distributed through the App Store, and will be self-updating via Sparkle.
I'm looking for any recommendations or best practices for hosting the app binaries. They will be distributed as zip files and will be approximately 20 MB in size.
These are two options I'm considering, but I'd love to hear if anyone has a better approach:
- Hosting the binaries on the same web server as my website
- Hosting the binaries on S3 and linking to them from the website
Doing #1 is the simplest and most obvious choice, but I have no idea if that's a good approach? Each app binary download is many times larger than one page of my site, do I need to worry about causing problems? E.g., how is this additional bandwidth accounted for in the hosting company billing?
Using S3 seems like a standard solution to the above problems, but frankly it's not clear to me if those are real problems. I'm also concerned about the S3 pricing model not being capped.
Finally, a big question that concerns both #1 and #2 is how does using a CDN factor into this? Can I really just use Cloudflare in front of either option above, and then the majority of the time my 20 MB zip files will be served from Cloudflare without even hitting S3 or my web server? If that's the case then am I correcting in assuming that S3 then offers minimal additional benefits over just hosting the assets on my web server?
Anything else I may not be considering?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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I'm working on a macOS app that will not be distributed through the App Store, and will be self-updating via Sparkle.
I'm looking for any recommendations or best practices for hosting the app binaries. They will be distributed as zip files and will be approximately 20 MB in size.
These are two options I'm considering, but I'd love to hear if anyone has a better approach:
- Hosting the binaries on the same web server as my website
- Hosting the binaries on S3 and linking to them from the website
Doing #1 is the simplest and most obvious choice, but I have no idea if that's a good approach? Each app binary download is many times larger than one page of my site, do I need to worry about causing problems? E.g., how is this additional bandwidth accounted for in the hosting company billing?
Using S3 seems like a standard solution to the above problems, but frankly it's not clear to me if those are real problems. I'm also concerned about the S3 pricing model not being capped.
Finally, a big question that concerns both #1 and #2 is how does using a CDN factor into this? Can I really just use Cloudflare in front of either option above, and then the majority of the time my 20 MB zip files will be served from Cloudflare without even hitting S3 or my web server? If that's the case then am I correcting in assuming that S3 then offers minimal additional benefits over just hosting the assets on my web server?
Anything else I may not be considering?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
macos amazon-s3 hosting native
asked Nov 19 at 22:33
robenk
372616
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I'm working on a macOS app that will not be distributed through the App Store, and will be self-updating via Sparkle.
I'm looking for any recommendations or best practices for hosting the app binaries. They will be distributed as zip files and will be approximately 20 MB in size.
These are two options I'm considering, but I'd love to hear if anyone has a better approach:
- Hosting the binaries on the same web server as my website
- Hosting the binaries on S3 and linking to them from the website
Doing #1 is the simplest and most obvious choice, but I have no idea if that's a good approach? Each app binary download is many times larger than one page of my site, do I need to worry about causing problems? E.g., how is this additional bandwidth accounted for in the hosting company billing?
Using S3 seems like a standard solution to the above problems, but frankly it's not clear to me if those are real problems. I'm also concerned about the S3 pricing model not being capped.
Finally, a big question that concerns both #1 and #2 is how does using a CDN factor into this? Can I really just use Cloudflare in front of either option above, and then the majority of the time my 20 MB zip files will be served from Cloudflare without even hitting S3 or my web server? If that's the case then am I correcting in assuming that S3 then offers minimal additional benefits over just hosting the assets on my web server?
Anything else I may not be considering?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
macos amazon-s3 hosting native
asked Nov 19 at 22:33
robenk
372616
I'm working on a macOS app that will not be distributed through the App Store, and will be self-updating via Sparkle.
I'm looking for any recommendations or best practices for hosting the app binaries. They will be distributed as zip files and will be approximately 20 MB in size.
These are two options I'm considering, but I'd love to hear if anyone has a better approach:
- Hosting the binaries on the same web server as my website
- Hosting the binaries on S3 and linking to them from the website
Doing #1 is the simplest and most obvious choice, but I have no idea if that's a good approach? Each app binary download is many times larger than one page of my site, do I need to worry about causing problems? E.g., how is this additional bandwidth accounted for in the hosting company billing?
Using S3 seems like a standard solution to the above problems, but frankly it's not clear to me if those are real problems. I'm also concerned about the S3 pricing model not being capped.
Finally, a big question that concerns both #1 and #2 is how does using a CDN factor into this? Can I really just use Cloudflare in front of either option above, and then the majority of the time my 20 MB zip files will be served from Cloudflare without even hitting S3 or my web server? If that's the case then am I correcting in assuming that S3 then offers minimal additional benefits over just hosting the assets on my web server?
Anything else I may not be considering?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
macos amazon-s3 hosting native
macos amazon-s3 hosting native
asked Nov 19 at 22:33
robenk
372616
asked Nov 19 at 22:33
robenk
372616
asked Nov 19 at 22:33
robenk
372616
asked Nov 19 at 22:33
robenk
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asked Nov 19 at 22:33
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