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Hi there,
I posted a few days ago question about hosting but now wanted to see if people can share their experience/opinions about storage size. As with a lot of you, I am about to launch my EasySocial based social network and am feeling positive about it all. When I started thinking about the storage size I felt a bit overwhelmed and it looks like I am about to gauge an expensive and nearly impossible to find hosting company to fit the needs for such a venture. Here are my calculations:
Based on a 10,000 users uploading photos only (as I will not allow videos or file sharing) at a rate of 1 photo per day at an average size of 1mb (that is 10,000 x 1mb per day = 10GB). Of course I would need to mirror my site which doubles the size per day to 20GB. Even if I was able to afford a dedicated server with 1TB, it will only keep me going for 50 days, and that is only with 10,000 users.
Now, this calculation seems simple but I think it is logical and not over generous. I know that some users will not upload an image a day and some will do more then one. I know that image sizes vary but even if I was too pessimistic, and you could half my calculations, I it is pretty bad!
I know about Amazon S3, but it is not that cheap either. I presume I won't be able to user the Amazon glacier (which is very cheap), so I will have to use the standard which is only a touch cheaper then other companies:
Amazon S3: 0.085 per GB per month (meaning that 100GB will cost 8.5 euros per month)
Rackspace: 0.01 per GB per month (meaning that 100GB will cost 10 euros per month)
I would very much appreciate any member of the community thoughts on the matter:)
David.
I posted a few days ago question about hosting but now wanted to see if people can share their experience/opinions about storage size. As with a lot of you, I am about to launch my EasySocial based social network and am feeling positive about it all. When I started thinking about the storage size I felt a bit overwhelmed and it looks like I am about to gauge an expensive and nearly impossible to find hosting company to fit the needs for such a venture. Here are my calculations:
Based on a 10,000 users uploading photos only (as I will not allow videos or file sharing) at a rate of 1 photo per day at an average size of 1mb (that is 10,000 x 1mb per day = 10GB). Of course I would need to mirror my site which doubles the size per day to 20GB. Even if I was able to afford a dedicated server with 1TB, it will only keep me going for 50 days, and that is only with 10,000 users.
Now, this calculation seems simple but I think it is logical and not over generous. I know that some users will not upload an image a day and some will do more then one. I know that image sizes vary but even if I was too pessimistic, and you could half my calculations, I it is pretty bad!
I know about Amazon S3, but it is not that cheap either. I presume I won't be able to user the Amazon glacier (which is very cheap), so I will have to use the standard which is only a touch cheaper then other companies:
Amazon S3: 0.085 per GB per month (meaning that 100GB will cost 8.5 euros per month)
Rackspace: 0.01 per GB per month (meaning that 100GB will cost 10 euros per month)
I would very much appreciate any member of the community thoughts on the matter:)
David.
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