I'm doing research on the maturity of some document-oriented stores, which includes an overview of applications and websites that use the database in production environments. There are several lists and case studies available for CouchDB and MongoDB, including:
CouchDB In The Wild
MongoDB Production Deployments
I'm having a hard time finding applications and websites that use RavenDB in production. Does anyone have first-hand experience with this, or examples of (well-known) sites that run on RavenDB?
There are several people in the process of deploying RavenDB, see the discussion thread here for more info.
A testimonial called Case Study: The First RavenDB Deployment was posted on the RavenDB site last month. Ayende's post on this case study features a comment of the interviewee, explaining a bit more on his decision-making.
We're about to pop a beta of http://sonatribe.com which uses ravendb extensivley
The developer experience is great and the support is the same.
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Or I am really bad at searching or there is no detailed comparison between App Insights and ELK stack ?
All monitoring is going to be used for simple Web API, there going to be tons of end points but user traffic should not be too high.
So my question.. Is there any general points/differences when choosing between ELK and App Insights, personally never had a chance to set up any of those, but before setting up test environment would be nice to know in advance, what to expect/look for.
I'm from App Insights team. I think the link provided by #rickvdbosch in a comment gives quite good perspective. It is 1+ years old at this point, so, some items regarding App Insights evolved since then.
I think App Insights and ELK are quite different offerings. The former is managed offering (you can set it up within couple minutes), focused on very broad range of out-of-the-box experiences (collecting incoming/outgoing requests, exceptions, smart alerts, availability monitoring, analytics, live metrics, application map, end-to-end transactions across apps).
My understanding of ELK is that it has very powerful UI visualization and powerful dashboards (though there are adapters for Kibana to work with Azure Monitor). For scenarios where there is a need to store a lot of data (highly loaded apps with adaptive sampling still store limited amount of data) ELK solution might be cheaper to run.
Final decision was to use ELK as servers already have all the configuration, because other team uses it and mainly because logging will need a lot customization.
I read some posts here, but a real answer I didnt find.
Normally I work and worked with normal SQL Databaeses (MS SQL, MySQL), when I developed applications (ERP, CRM, PPS, Web Shops etc.). A real contact/experience with document-oriented databases in real business was not possible.
Only in a private sector (hobby, experimental projects) I tested MongoDB and CouchDB. The experience was good, but not enough to say "Yes, let it use for business!", because I could not test it in a real environment.
But now, there is a chance to program from zero, which could be a big start for a business.
So my question:
Can I use Couchebase for a big business application, where thousands users would use it. Is it so fast and with good performance to handling thousnds of queries, requests/reposts etc.?
How looks like with backup and restore?
Where is the limit of couchbase?
Thank you for the anwser.
In short, yes.
Your questions are too broad to fully address here. Couchbase has many real-world installations with clients doing production work at large scale. You can see several references with write ups of their uses on the Couchbase site. (Note this is not a complete list of customers, only ones that have agreed to have their use highlighted.) You will definitely recognize some names.
I wonder what all databases/combination of databases stack overflow uses underneath, managing extensive user profile information over various verticals.
As i case of social networking sites like twitter and facebook the Big Data managemnet is done over hadoop. Is stack overflow also handles such higher volumes of data?
How about indexing the information , is redis part of stackoverflow solutions?
It will be really interesting to understand solution deployed at world most popular technical forum .
This article provides a glimpse at what stackoverflow's architecture looks like circa March 2011: http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-architecture-update-now-at-95-million-page-vi.html
At a high level, its a .NET application which uses MS SQL server for a database, Redis for caching, HAProxy for load balancing, and a whole host of tools and hosted on both windows servers and linux servers (ubuntu+centos).
It doesn't look like they had any hadoop usage at the time of that article, but that could have changed. They might also be doing something different/custom for map/reduce type jobs or might not need anything like that at all yet. With delicacy, SQL servers can be scaled pretty far without needing to lean on "big data" toys. This is especially true if you can get most of your data out of your caching layer.
I'm looking for someone reasonably cheap but better than the majority of budget hosts out there. I'm currently with brinkster.net and I've become increasingly annoyed at the their immense unreliability and low available resources.
Fasthosts business plan is close, but has no mysql, only has ASP.NET 2.0 and is maybe slightly more expensive than I was hoping for.
I have had several sites hosted on http://discountasp.net and have had very good results. They are on year 4 of being voted best ASP.NET host in the asp.netPRO reader's choice survey.
I have had great luck with Viux.com - their customer service is top-notch and they were quick to implement asp.net 3.5. I moved all my sites (5) to Viux now and couldn't be happier. Very reliable and I can't say enough about their super fast and friendly service! MySQL comes free with all of their plans and MSSQL is $2/month.
I have tried quite a few hosts, and these guys are my favorite. If you decide on another, just make sure it is not M6.net, their customer service was just horrendous!
GoDaddy supports .NET 3.5 and mysql on their basic hosting packages.
We've used GoDaddy at my primary employment (day job :-) for several years and have had a positive experience with them (I also recently switched my home business from Yahoo! Small Business to GoDaddy).
Regarding reliability, I haven't had any problems with downtime. As a result, I have no first hand tech support experience with GoDaddy, but from what I read on the boards their tech support is pretty good (comparable to any other tech support I guess). They offer LINUX and Windows hosting (if that matters to you), MySQL and MSSQL database support, and .NET 3.5/AJAX.
And the price was reasonable, as far as I'm concerned.
I've been with these guys for quite a bit,
http://www.webhost4life.com/
Cheap and cheerful.
Something that might interest you -- ScottGu's latest blog post mentions Amazon's EC2 is going to support ASP.NET.
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/10/coming-soon-ama.html
Depending on what you plan on doing, that could be of interest. It's usually pretty cheap, as well.
Dreamhost supports stackoverflow's podcast
http://www.dreamhost.com/
Edit: It looks like they don't support ASP.NET though, that was unexpected.
Take a look at ReliableSite.Net
It is cheap and good. They even throw a free MS SQL 2005 database(1 GB- Extra DB costs $1) what other places charge $10/Month and give you less then 500MB of space.
So you can upgrade to mssql 2005(not sure if you where just using mysql because it is cheaper).
If you don't want to bother changing to mssql 2005 then you can save it for another project(you can host unlimited domains on Reliable) and use the mysql database that they also throw in for free.
I find Reliable does not nickle and dim you for every single thing and gives reasonable prices and have great coupons.
Like this coupon for 15% off for life: "aspforum"
Planet Small Business http://www.planetsmb.com/ are pretty cheap, and have excellent customer service.
The only hassle I've had with them is over hosting WCF services. I wasn't able to host it as a native ASP.Net service, you have to do a bit of extra plumbing to manually add a service host, but nothing impossible, and their customer support was there ready and waiting.
Highly recommended.
I Use SmarterAsp.net to host Multiple Sites ; they have good control panel and their Price start fro $2.95/Month you can also get 60 days free trial so you can decide if it's suitable for you
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I am a broke college student. I have built a small web app in PHP5 and MySQL, and I already have a domain. What is an affordable way to get it online? A few people have suggested amazon's cloud services, but that seems equivalent to slitting my wrists and watching money slowly trickle out. So suggestions? Hosting companies, CIA drop sites, anything?
Update: A lot of suggestions have been for Dreamhost. Their plan allows for 5TB of bandwidth. Could anyone put this in perspective? For instance, how much bandwidth does a site with the kind of traffic StackOverflow get?
I say pay the 50-80 bucks for a real host. The classic "you get what you pay for" is very true for hosting. This will save you time, time you can spend getting those $80.
I use and recommend DreamHost for both their prices and customer service. I've hosted several sites here and performance has always been good. $5.95 a month for their basic package.
I highly recommend HostRocket. I have been with them for about 6 or 7 years now with multiple domains and have found uptime and database availability flawless. The only reason I'm leaving them is because I'm doing some .NET web apps now and HostRocket is purely LAMP based.
But without making things an ongoing ad. I will put in two "gotchas" that you'll want to be wary of when searching:
"Free" hosting services. Most of these will make you subdomain on them and worse, they'll put a header and a footer on your page (sometimes in gaudy frame format) that they advertise heavily on. I don't care how poor you are, this will not help attract traffic to your app.
A lot of the cheaper rates depend on pre-payment. HostRocket will give you $4.99 a month in hosting, but you have to pre-pay for 3 years. If you go month to month, it is $8.99. There are definitely advantages to the pre-payment, but you don't want to get caught with close to twice the monthly payment if you weren't expecting it.
I recently found a site called WebHostingStuff that seems to have a decent list of hosts and folks that put in their reviews. While I wouldn't consider it "the final authority" I have been using it as of late for some ideas when looking for a new host.
I hope this helps and happy hunting!
I have no specific sites to suggest, but a typical hosting company will charge you less than $10 per month for service. A simple Google search will turn up lots of results for "comparison of web hosts": http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=comparison+of+web+hosts&btnG=Google+Search
Well, Amazon EC2 is only as bad as the amount of traffic you get. So the ideal situation is to monetize your site (ads, affiliate programs, etc) so that that more traffic you get, the more you pay Amazon, but the more you make...in theory of course.
As for a budget of nothing...there's not really much you can do...hosting typically always costs something, but since you are using the LAMP stack, it's pretty cheap.
For example, hosting on GoDaddy.com for 1year can be about $50-60 which is not too bad.
I use dreamhost which costs about $80 per year, but I get MUCH more storage and bandwidth.
I agree with pix0r. With your requirements of php5 and mysql it seems that for starting out Dreamhost would be a good recommendation. You can always move it over pretty easily to ec2 if it takes off.
Dreamhost is great and cheap for a php5 mysql setup that gives you command line access. The problems come if you want to use some other web language/framework like RoR or Python/Django/Pylons. I know there are hacks to get things working, but last time I tried they were spotty at best and not supported by Dreamhost.
It may be helpful to know what kind of app we are talking about. Also what sort of traffic do you expect and to echo Adam's note what sort of business model (if any) do you have?
I've been at HostingMatters for years. They're relatively cheap, and their service is awesome. <12 hours for any support ticket I've ever had.
Additionally, since I've been with them for about ten years, they bumped me to an unmetered plan for no cost (at the same $10/month I was paying.) ....