Answer by xdg for Scaling MongoDB on EC2 or should I just switch to DynamoDB?
I've had very bad experiences with SimpleDB and think it's fundamentally flawed, so I would avoid it. Three is a good white paper on how to set up MongoDB on Amazon EC2:...
View ArticleAnswer by Bryce for Scaling MongoDB on EC2 or should I just switch to DynamoDB?
Beware that at the moment EC2 does not have 64 bit small instances, making replication potentially expensive. Because MongoDB memory maps files, a 32 bit OS is not advised.
View ArticleAnswer by Gates VP for Scaling MongoDB on EC2 or should I just switch to...
I currently run my website on a single server with MongoDB. First off, this is a big red flag. When running on production, it is always recommended to run a replica set with at least three full nodes....
View ArticleAnswer by Joe for Scaling MongoDB on EC2 or should I just switch to DynamoDB?
You could host Mongo on a single server on EC2 which each of the boxes in the web farm connect to. You can then easily spin up another web instance that uses the same DB box. We currently have three...
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I currently run my website on a single server with MongoDB. On my server I have two components (1) a crawler that runs hourly and appends data to my MongoDB instance (2) a web-site that reads from the...
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