We've recently moved to Riak on Joyent's cloud. They are offering a pre-configured Riak appliance, which let us start out with 3 small nodes. Performance has not been an issue here.
-Marc On Jan 17, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Wilson MacGyver wrote: > We are using it on amazon with no issues. we are using 7.5gb instances. You > can reduce the cost by doing reserve instances. > > We are still using bitcask, which makes amount of ram per instance very > important due to each node need to keep all keys it's responsible for in the > ram. > > It's a trade off, is raw metal nice? Sure. However, ec2 gives you advantage > compare to your own co-lo datacenter. > > On Jan 17, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Tom Davies <atomgi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey there, >> >> I am considering Riak for a new project. One possible show stopper >> for me is I believe Riak is not recommended for use on a VM which >> would make cloud deployments (e.g. rackspace, ec2, etc) a no go. Also, >> I read somewhere else the minimum EC2 deployment recommendation was 3 >> large instances which would run over $700 / month. Is it possible to >> run Riak in the cloud and if so what is the minimum recommended >> configuration? Also, I'd be interested in hearing any recommendations >> for initial configuration in a cloud environment. >> >> Thanks! >> -- >> Tom Davies >> >> http://teenormous.com >> The Ultimate T-shirt Search Engine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
