Great I checked out S3 and it sounds good. Just wondering if Google provides some thing similar?
On Mar 7, 10:47 pm, "justin kruger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > s3, is definitely the way to go, but there are fees involved there. > > with our system we will have to have a scalable infrastructure in > place to handle the CRUD features on files stored on s3, this means > ec2. > right now, amazon does not have a great way of reading and writing to > s3 with out an ec2 instance. > > for more database like stuff simpleDB, drops the request cost of S3, > and charges $1.50 per GB stored vs $.18 per GB stored. > > it would be nice to come up with a general image for amazon that could > process such requests for social widgets. it would be even better if > we could some how just pay for CPU time and not hours of images > running. > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Rohit, > > > The size of the application data store is going to change from container > > to container, but I don't think that it will realistically get to the size > > of 1-2Mb per user per application. Even though 1-2Mb doesn't sound too big, > > there are some social network applications with millions of users - an app > > storing 1 Mb per user with a million users will need about a terabyte of > > storage space. > > > Activities are for notifying a user's friends about actions that the user > > has taken in an application. It doesn't provide any form of storage (other > > than the piece of text used to describe the activity, I guess). > > > Your best bet for something like this would be to invest in some scalable > > storage hosting. Amazon provides a service for this called S3 [1], and I'm > > sure that there are other services like this as well. > > > Hope this helps, > > ~Arne > > > [1]http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261 > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Rohit Ghatol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > I am trying to build an application which needs viewer to store some > > > data for himselves and retrieve data for viewer's friends. > > > > Now at first I decided to use the user application space (to start > > > with), but it is infact it is too small (and the purpose of it looks > > > like to store settings and not really data). I also thought of > > > fetching and storing the data from some external source, but then I > > > need to link each user with some data on this external source. > > > > I was wondering if activities could help me here. Frankly speaking , I > > > still haven't understood activites that well yet. Would some one be > > > able to suggest some examples of activites to me and how they can be > > > used with an open social application. > > > > Frankly speaking I need some data store for my application not too > > > big, may be 1-2 mb, per user per application. > > > > Regards, > > > Rohit > > -- > -- > Justin Krugerhttp://jDavid.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone > gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. > Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less > fortunate person, just as you were helped." --Melinda Gates --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
