Hello Let's see if I can articulate this sufficiently.
Some background: I am a one person shop, I wear all the hats and I have been learning everything as I go for the last 18-20 months, so I am still a bit of a noob.
I have an iOS app created in Titanium using Pegli's ti_couchbase module. If the user wants to enable syncing, they enter their requested GroupName, Password, eMail address. The app reaches out to a php document that uses php-on-couchdb to check if the GroupName (database name) is available, if it is, that database is created with the proper authorization/password. This all works great and I am very pleased with it.
I am currently running everything into IrisCouch. I am considering changing over to AWS as IrisCouch seems a bit slow, plus last week they were down all morning one day. I have everything up and running on an AWS micro instance. (Couchdb 1.2). In fact I have two instances, Couch A and Couch B. Couch B is my backup server and has a cron job running a script to continuously replicate everything on A to B.
The current version of my app has about 3k users. If history is an indicator, when this syncing version is released, I expect about 250 users (world wide) per day to update to the sync version. I expect 80% will enable syncing. The numbers I am anticipating are 200 people per day creating a database initially syncing 300-600 documents (2-4Meg per db). The Couchdb server is for replication only.
After the initial updates I anticipate an average of 15 users per day growth, databases created with less than 20 docs to start.
Using Cloudant is not an option at this time and I would rather get away from IrisCouch.
Will a Micro instance be sufficient or will I need to go larger? Thank you for the help and advice!
