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Can somebody explain why mongodb storage space is always so expensive and limited on mongodb hosting services? (Not just these SSD plans) And the plans also st

Can somebody explain why mongodb storage space is always so expensive and limited on mongodb hosting services? (Not just these SSD plans) And the plans also start with so little space

jacques_chester 14y ago
Because it's more profitable for them to charge more.
- saalweachter 14y ago
  And they're catering to people who either (a) don't know how cheaply you can run a database or (b) know how expensive it is to run a database well. The number of times I've seen a database go down in production either because it's solitary mirror failed with no one noticing or because it wasn't consider "mission critical" enough to have a mirror... you're not just paying for the hardware, you're paying for the guys managing the hardware. If you're a company with databases and you don't have someone on staff whose primary job is making sure your databases still exist from day to day, one day they won't.
  - _neil 14y ago
    This. We have a small team for a particular project I'm on and we were initially hosting mongo ourselves. After reading so many horror stories, we felt much more comfortable outsourcing configuration, management, and backups until we get to the point that we can have a dedicated DB person.
    - jacques_chester 14y ago
      Given that you were motivated by "horror stories", did you also consider changing data stores?
      - _neil 14y ago
        That's fair. Yes, we did consider changing. But we haven't had any issues ourselves or a real need for a structured database at this time. If we do in the future, transitioning won't be extremely painful because most of our historical data isn't critical; it would mainly just be user accounts. For us, saying, "oh shit, a handful of other people had a bad experience – we should drop everything and move our data to postgres" would have been a bad decision and a waste of time/money.
        jacques_chester 14y ago
        Thanks for the reply. I'm a pro-RDBMS bigot, but path dependency is path dependency. In your position I would probably make the same decision.

Can somebody explain why mongodb storage space is always so expensive and limited on mongodb hosting services? (Not just these SSD plans) And the plans also start with so little space

jacques_chester 14y ago

Because it's more profitable for them to charge more.

saalweachter 14y ago
And they're catering to people who either (a) don't know how cheaply you can run a database or (b) know how expensive it is to run a database well. The number of times I've seen a database go down in production either because it's solitary mirror failed with no one noticing or because it wasn't consider "mission critical" enough to have a mirror... you're not just paying for the hardware, you're paying for the guys managing the hardware. If you're a company with databases and you don't have someone on staff whose primary job is making sure your databases still exist from day to day, one day they won't.
- _neil 14y ago
  This. We have a small team for a particular project I'm on and we were initially hosting mongo ourselves. After reading so many horror stories, we felt much more comfortable outsourcing configuration, management, and backups until we get to the point that we can have a dedicated DB person.
  - jacques_chester 14y ago
    Given that you were motivated by "horror stories", did you also consider changing data stores?
    - _neil 14y ago
      That's fair. Yes, we did consider changing. But we haven't had any issues ourselves or a real need for a structured database at this time. If we do in the future, transitioning won't be extremely painful because most of our historical data isn't critical; it would mainly just be user accounts. For us, saying, "oh shit, a handful of other people had a bad experience – we should drop everything and move our data to postgres" would have been a bad decision and a waste of time/money.
      - jacques_chester 14y ago
        Thanks for the reply. I'm a pro-RDBMS bigot, but path dependency is path dependency. In your position I would probably make the same decision.