Hi Pete and jeff, Thanks for you two's replies. > > > While trying to find a less expensive way to validate my application > > targeting AWS S3, I stumbled across Project Hail. > > I'm not sure if the assumptions are sound. The S3 is > extremely cheap. For example, my personal use of it comes to less > than a dollar a month. For my own personal use, indeed that's the case. However, S3's carries quite significant charges for HTTP PUT requests. That's an area where I am trying to test thoroughly before testing it live against the AWS S3 itself. [...] > > > 1. Am I correct in assuming that I can run all three components on > > a single VPS with the resources outlined above? > > Yes. > > Two things you might want to keep in mind: > > - The tabled's implementation is not the canon, S3 is. If the S3fox > fails with tabled but works with S3, it's likely a bug in tabled. > I fixed up quite a bunch of them when I started running Boto. > > For example, parsing of arbitrary ACPs is absent and only canned > forms are supported for now. > > - You're likely to run into bugs with stability, or something not > starting... I just barely have it all working. Don't trust tabled > with your backups just yet (I don't). Maybe in a few months. Noted. Thanks for the warning. > > > If yes to both, can you outline the steps that you would setup > > the three components for such a purpose? > > I hope that tabled's setup.txt should be sufficient. CLD > does not really need any setup, just an empty directory. Ask away if > you have a specific question, no matter how detailed. I have been tied up in this past week and half by routine workload (don't we all have such?). I will try to squeeze sometime in the next week to see if I can make some headway. Will keep the list posted. Thanks, --Zack -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe hail-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html