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I want to deploy my blog on AppHarbor. But the free size of the database is 20 MB. I am not yet ready to pay $10/month for the 10GB database. My question is: would this be sufficient for a simple blog with one post a week?

I am not going to use any blogging engine. I will write my own engine with just posts in the database. I plan to use Disqus for comments.

Dan Esparza
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    As long as you don't store images in the database, that sounds totally okay. – Pekka Feb 18 '11 at 11:45
  • 20MB - How many users are you planning to support and how much data are you planning to add? I think you will overrun the size pretty soon. In around 15-30 days time. – Sachin Shanbhag Feb 18 '11 at 11:45
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    @Sanchin, I'm not sure what kind of coffee you drink, but 20,000,000 characters is a lot of typing for me. That's 15 characters A SECOND non-stop for 15 days. – Dan Esparza Apr 19 '11 at 23:56

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That's basic math, really.

One post a week of say 10kB per post, would make you last 200 weeks. Mutatis mutandis:

          D bytes per database
---------------------------------------  = weeks per database
(N posts per week) x (S bytes per post)
xtofl
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It should be enough. Consider that our blog (wordpress based) has almost 1000 posts and around 1000 comments. And the database is less than 5 MB.

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yes, 20MB of data is a lot of data (if it's text based).

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If you're just using text, no images or media, that should be fine. It takes a lot of text to reach 20MB...

Roughly it gives you 4,194,304 words to play with (given 1 byte per character, average of 5 characters per word)

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for images u can use something like photobucket, where only links are to be pasted.... 20 MB is a HUGE quantity! I would reckon u start with 1 MB from a weekly basis and then go on to 20 MB, will save a bit of $$

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