3 node EC2 m1.xlarge is ~ $1000/k month + any incidental costs ( s3 backups, transfer out of the AZ ), etc ) or ~$300/month after a ~$1400 upfront 1 year reservation fee.
There are some uncomfortable spots when compaction kicks on concurrently for several large CF's but otherwise its been performant and so far stable using ephemeral raid0 ala ( Datastax's 2.4 AMI ). On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:15 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > From what I understood "tons" of people are running things on ec2, but it > could be the instance size is pretty large that it compares to a dedicated > server (especially if you go with SSD, it is like 1K/month!) > > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Aaron Morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > >> how many nodes to start with(2 ok?) ? >> >> I'd recommend 3, that will give you some redundancy see >> http://thelastpickle.com/2011/06/13/Down-For-Me/ >> >> Cheers >> >> ----------------- >> Aaron Morton >> Cassandra Consultant >> New Zealand >> >> @aaronmorton >> http://www.thelastpickle.com >> >> On 5/08/2013, at 1:41 AM, Rajkumar Gupta <rajkumar....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> okay, so what should a workable VPS configuration to start with & minimum >> how many nodes to start with(2 ok?) ? Seriously I cannot afford the >> tensions of colocation setup. My hosting provider provides SSD drives with >> KVM virtualization. >> >> >> >
