Joyent makes a great service, but they are WAY overly priced. I'd recommend a 512 SliceHost/Linode. Or a 1GB @ Voxel/SoftLayer.
-J On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Sicular <sicul...@gmail.com> wrote: > - You can not tell riak where to place buckets. > - You could set the N val on a bucket to one, and you should in the case of > your 'big bucket'. Otherwise you will get N replicas on the same physical > host. > -Use linode. 512 > 256 = better. > > But in reality , your use case doesnt mesh well with what riak is all about. > distributed redundancy. I would use couchdb for your 'big bucket' of data. > Couch uses a write only log (wol) filesystem with an incremental b-tree index > for map reduce. This may work better for you. > > -Alexander > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 6:44 AM, Orlin Bozhinov wrote: > >> I can easily wait for Riak Search to do this >> http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user/browse_thread/thread/c2563a8566591a30/b3d19f21675a899e >> - instead of mongodb. Does this deployment I have in mind make sense: >> >> I'll get a medium (or large) Linode box for the big dataset bucket. >> Hopefully you can give me an idea about how much RAM I'll need for that. >> This is batch-generated data. It takes time to generate, but (once added) >> it will not change. Because of that I'd like to save some money and not >> replicate it. I plan to have 2 other small Linode servers and run a Riak >> cluster of 3. Can I tell Riak to keep the big bucket exclusively on the big >> server? It will be used only for queries. So if the server crashes, I can >> just reboot it, expecting the same data back up. Because it's a single-node >> bucket (if that's even possible to have in a cluster), I probably still >> won't be "linking" to it from other buckets (so when it fails, the impact is >> minimal). Or maybe I should keep it in a separate (single node) cluster >> anyway? >> >> Cluster separation means I can run the smaller cluster elsewhere. The >> Joyent + Riak news is very exciting! I couldn't afford to put the big >> bucket dataset on it (another reason to have 2 clusters) and I'd have to go >> with the smallest SmartMachines for starters. Would 256 MB RAM be good >> enough (just for Riak)? What kind of load can that handle? I'm also >> tempted to just run everything on Linode. It's about 3 times cheaper (as >> far memory goes) and the upgrades are less dramatic. Would you recommend >> that (for low-budget)? I imagine there will be an easy (Linode -> Joyent) >> Riak migration path... >> >> Orlin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
