> On 14 Dec 2015, at 21:40, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:46 AM, Vladimir Prudnikov <v.prudni...@gmail.com > <mailto:v.prudni...@gmail.com>> wrote: > [I want to run Cassandra on a single server] > > I struggle to imagine the purpose of doing this.
Save money. I don’t have huge enterprise behind me nor investor’s money on my bank account. I just created an app and want to launch it and see if it is what users will use and pay for. Once I get users using it I can scale my hardware. Is it hard to start with 3 nodes on one server running in docker and then just move 2 nodes to the separate servers? > > You are going to sign yourself up for repeated painful changes of RF, as well > as downtimes. As Michael says, you will get most of the cost of a distributed > database and none of the benefit. > > I'm pretty sure the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM reasonabl(ish) deploy of cassandra is > RF=N=2. > > =Rob >
