Re: cost estimation

2011-03-11 Thread Lars George
a new VM or power on an existing Cluster? Thanks -Pete -Original Message- From: Andrew Purtell [mailto:apurt...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:31 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: cost estimation Everything Gary said. Something interesting Netflix

cost estimation

2011-03-10 Thread Weishung Chung
I am trying to estimate the cost of hosting own HBase cluster vs using EC2. Could anyone give me some guidance? Cluster size ~ 6 to 8 nodes Usage ~ at least 12 hours/day with lot of read/write operations. (I know I need to have more concrete usage number here) Thank you so much :)

Re: cost estimation

2011-03-10 Thread Gary Helmling
Hi Weishung, See the EC2 instance pricing details here: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricingand try to calculate it out vs. price quotes for hardware. You'll need to run at _least_ m1.large or c1.xlarge instances for HBase. There was a recent discussion thread

Re: cost estimation

2011-03-10 Thread Ted Dunning
With no information whatsoever about size of the data, I would guess a cost of about $4000 / node with annual hosting and power requirements about $2000/year. This is probably no more accurate than one order of magnitude. It has a decent chance of being on the close order of magnitude. In

Re: cost estimation

2011-03-10 Thread Andrew Purtell
(others are m2.4xlarge and cc1.xlarge iirc). From: Gary Helmling ghelml...@gmail.com Subject: Re: cost estimation To: user@hbase.apache.org Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 9:37 AM Hi Weishung, See the EC2 instance pricing details here: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing http

RE: cost estimation

2011-03-10 Thread Peter Haidinyak
Message- From: Andrew Purtell [mailto:apurt...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:31 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: cost estimation Everything Gary said. Something interesting Netflix said this week at the ccevent conference was they were able to depreciate Reserved Instance

RE: cost estimation

2011-03-10 Thread Andrew Purtell
...@local.com Subject: RE: cost estimation To: user@hbase.apache.org user@hbase.apache.org Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 3:46 PM I just took a day course on the Amazon Cloud and he had mentioned the every time you spin up a VM it gets a different IP and Host name. If this is true how do you