[dba-SQLServer] [AccessD] Free cloud database

[Arthur Fuller]

I have no experience with any cloud database, and a bunch of questions, a
few of which I shall ask here and now.

1. How secure are the cloud databases I might launch? How many have been
hacked and on which platforms?
2. How does performance compare vis-a-vis an installation on a speedy local
server?
3. How do clouds back up themselves? Distributed instances? Some other
method?
4. Suppose I have a database comprising 30 GB, and growing by a GB a year.
What's that going to cost me? (I personally have no such DBs but a number
of clients do. Actually, one previous client has a DB comprising 30 GB at
installation, and anticipated growth is 10 GB per year.)

Even though this list is ostensibly about MS-SQL, I'm asking these
questions here without any preference for MS-SQL. I know a little about
MS-SQL but also PostGreSQL and MySQL and MariaDB, all of which have
significant cost advantages over MS-SQL and Oracle.

It seems that almost all the vendors offer a cloud-version. I don't have
the hardware resources to check them all out and design benchmarks. Have
any of you listers done comparisions, or failing that, can you point me to
published comparisons?

Thanks,
Arthur

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Paul Hartland via AccessD <
accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:

> Thanks all for suggestions, I think when I am ready I may go with azure, I
> have an account with them as I joined when I got visual studio express, but
> have never used it....I just wondered if anyone had any good experiences
> with cloud as I have never used a cloud service before.
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> On 7 October 2017 at 20:50, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > I would recommend DigitalOcean.
> >
> > They have a very resonable entrance pricing, as low as $5.00 per month or
> > you can choose to pay by the minute for a big short term project. Like
> > 0.119 cents an hour for a 8GB memory, 4vCPUs, 80GB SSD and 5TB transfer.
> It
> > should be noted that there is not transfer charges if the transferring is
> > done through an SSH/SSL pipe. There is also special rated block-storage
> for
> > projects requiring large amounts of data to test on or use.
> >
> > https://www.digitalocean.com
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Jim
> >
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> > Cc: "Paul Hartland" <paul.hartland at googlemail.com>
> > Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 7:38:25 PM
> > Subject: [AccessD] Free cloud database
> >
> > To all,
> >
> > Does anyone know of/recommend a decent free cloud database I can use even
> > if a trial for a month or two while I try to test a few things, will be
> > happy to pay if I decide to use it afterwards.
> >
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-- 
Arthur