Hey guys, Apologies in advance if this question is in poor taste. But I've really fallen in love with learning about the cassanrdra database. The only problem is that it doesn't run very well on an t1.micro instance at amazon and the larger sizes are quite expensive. An m1.small can do the trick, while still not optimal. So I was wonder if there was any real value in the cloud or even VPS world where I could setup a small Cassandra ring and go to town learning the ins and outs of how it operates. Thanks Tim -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B
On 02/16/2013 08:40 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:> Hey guys, > > Apologies in advance if this question is in poor taste. But I've really > fallen in love with learning about the cassanrdra database. The only > problem is that it doesn't run very well on an t1.micro instance at amazon > and the larger sizes are quite expensive. An m1.small can do the trick, > while still not optimal. So I was wonder if there was any real value in the > cloud or even VPS world where I could setup a small Cassandra ring and go > to town learning the ins and outs of how it operates.I wholeheartedly recommend <www.digitalocean.com> Excellent service & very good value for money. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal GnuPG Key : http://www.horse-latitudes.co.uk/publickey.asc
On 16.02.2013 20:40, Tim Dunphy wrote:> Hey guys, > > Apologies in advance if this question is in poor taste. But I've > really > fallen in love with learning about the cassanrdra database. The only > problem is that it doesn't run very well on an t1.micro instance at > amazon > and the larger sizes are quite expensive. An m1.small can do the > trick, > while still not optimal. So I was wonder if there was any real value > in the > cloud or even VPS world where I could setup a small Cassandra ring and > go > to town learning the ins and outs of how it operates.leaseweb.com hetzner.de -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote:> Hey guys, > > Apologies in advance if this question is in poor taste. But I've really > fallen in love with learning about the cassanrdra database. The only > problem is that it doesn't run very well on an t1.micro instance at amazon > and the larger sizes are quite expensive. An m1.small can do the trick, > while still not optimal. So I was wonder if there was any real value in the > cloud or even VPS world where I could setup a small Cassandra ring and go > to town learning the ins and outs of how it operates.A quick look for Cassandra system requirements: <http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraHardware> recommends a L instance on AWS. Alternately, you could do it with a bunch of guest VMs in LKVM. A desktop with a Phenom II (4 or 6 cores) or Intel i5 with 16 GB and a HDD to match your Cassandra db could be a starting point. You can manage the VMs with virt-manager. -- Arun Khan