On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Mihai Popa <mihai@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Second, where should I deploy it? The cloud or a dedicated box? Forget cloud. For similar money, you can get dedicated hosting with much more reliable performance. We've been looking at places to deploy a new service, and to that end, we booked a few cloud instances and started playing. Bang for buck, even the lower-end dedicated servers (eg about $35/month) majorly outdo Amazon cloud instances. But don't take someone's word for it. Amazon let you trial their system for a year, up to (I think) ~750 computation hours per month, of their basic instance type. You can find out for yourself exactly how unsuitable it is! :) The fact is that cloud platforms offer flexibility, and that flexibility comes at a significant cost. I don't think PostgreSQL can adequately exploit X nodes with 600MB RAM each, while it _can_ make excellent use of a single computer with gobs (that's a new SI unit, you know) of memory. Incidentally, I've heard tell that cloud instances can vary enormously in performance through the day or week, but we did some cursory testing and didn't experience that. That doesn't prove you won't have problems, of course, but it's one of the purported downsides of clouding that clearly isn't as universal as I've heard said. ChrisA -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
