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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 mor
by _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 agoGiven that you were motivated by "horror stories", did you also consider changing data stores?
- _neil 14y agoThat'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 agoThanks 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.