Ask HN: Bootstrapping data costs?

2 points by habitatforus 15y ago ↗ HN

I'm working on a bootstrapped startup and have a large dataset (500 GB) that I'm trying to find an affordable way to store online. At this point I am trying to put together a basic prototype. Does anyone have suggestions for cheap online storage?

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byoung2 15y ago ↗

We'd need more info about what you plan to do with it, but Amazon should have what you're looking for (http://aws.amazon.com/). If it needs to be in a relational database, try Amazon RDS (http://aws.amazon.com/rds/), where you can pick from 5GB to 1TB of storage.

robwgibbons 15y ago ↗

A possible route would be hosting your own dedicated server.

vyrotek 15y ago ↗

Our company is using Azure Table Storage - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing - $0.15/mo It's great if you can live with it not being relational.

SQL Azure is their 'SQL Server in the cloud' and is a bit more. But the sharding possibilities are great. You can programmatically turn on/off db instances on demand.

habitatforus 15y ago ↗

Notes:

The data is relational

I don't want to host my own server, because that just isn't my strong point.