For testing/proof of concept most people start with something smaller than a world database. E.g. a country or a state extract.
<http://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=241> On 06/22/2013 11:19 PM, malcolm stanley wrote: > If you look here http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/block-storage/pricing/ you > will see pricing for Rackspace SSD is $0.70 cents per GB per month. > Its hard to compare apples to apples as they include IO in the price. > Having said that, it looks like at that price a 500G volume for a world > database would run about $350 per month. > a comparable Amazon volume would be far less @12.5 cents as opposed to > $0.70, but then you have to pay IO AND you can only use them on larger > instances, so you are going to cost up on that side. > > Its almost like you need a case study comparing the offerings based on > specific usage profiles. > > for instance, a dev instance on amazon is going to cost less (I **think**) > because you would have low IO and low disk costs. > as you ramp the IO up and start to add performance to AMZ, that would > probably change pretty quickly > > > > > _________________________________________ > malcolm stanley > > google.voice: 215.821.6252 > Cell: 267.251.9479 <------------- new > email: [email protected] > twitter / linkedin: amstanley > Read my blog at http://soaringhorse.blogspot.com > _________________________________________ > > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:58 AM, malcolm stanley >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'm sure there are a lot of people like me that need low cost prototyping >>> environments; >>> rather than saying 'Amazon is inappropriate', perhaps we need to >>> collectively develop a guide that says 'here is how you configure one'. >>> I'm happy to help with that by documenting my own experience if that is >>> useful. >> >> Rackspace and Digital Ocean offer SSD-based storage options. Not sure >> if it qualifies as "low cost" but it's available. >> >> -- >> Jeff Ollie >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > -- --- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
