Amazon S3
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- chow0
I've used S3 on several projects. It's great as long as your application is designed with it in mind.
If you care about performance, you'll also want to look into a caching CDN, such as CloudFront. S3 latency can be quite slow at times.
Clearly S3 more expensive than commodity shared hosting, but they're not really comparable at all. Say you're looking to lease a delivery vehicle, shared hosting is like an economy car with "unlimited" mileage; S3 like is having a fleet of trucks worldwide available to use as you need.
If you can't convince your client to switch, let him stay on shared hosting and see how he likes it when his account is locked due to "excessive CPU utilization" or whatever other excuse the shared host has put in the TOS to protect themselves from high bandwidth users.
HTH