I'd love to hear if IrisCouch is slower an a micro EC2 instance, I'd be astonished. Using a micro for anything serious, like a production database, is "penny wise, pound foolish" imo.
B. On 2 Jul 2012, at 18:28, Douglas Turner wrote: > 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!
