I have been trying to search around and have not really found an answer for the cost of a web app I want to host. Its not a small one, and the AWS calculator gives me crazy prices.
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html?key=my-free-website
I am trying to host a rails/grails app (its grails, but I figure that it would cost about the same).
I did some calculations to expect how much data transfer, but I’ve never done this before, so I’m not sure about the certainty.
I will be hosting around 20,000 pdfs of about 1mb each. I’m expecting about 25,000 GB data out a year from loading pages and files. I’m expecting about 2,000 GB data-in per year. I think I need about 50 to 70 GB GB of storage for the files and database.
Around how much should I expect to pay? Its a grails application.
Thank you!
Daniel
PS: The similar questions I found deal with only smaller applications, and in those even people who are very experienced mentioned the AWS calculator as being hard to figure out.
I’d also look at cloudfoundry (http://cloudfoundry.com), it’s currently free while in beta, comes with a grails plugin that is really great as well as STS integration.
I believe you can also use it to deploy to aws their service is better later.