I’m currently in development of an app that uses a database for storing user-entered data, and has web services as an intermediary between the app and the database. When I go live, the database and web services needs to be hosted by a provider (can’t be local to the device).
I don’t have any grand delusions of selling millions of copies of this app, however I’d like to be optimistic and plan for a good case scenario of 10,000 downloads. For arguments sake, lets say each time it’s loaded up, 1 MB of data is transferred during that instance. I need to make sure that if I charge a few bucks for the app, that it doesn’t end up costing me more than that for each user over the course of a couple of years and in turn bankrupt me.
The only real provider I know of is Amazon Web Services/S3. Are there others that are more popular and/or more economical? Or is that the most popular/best value route?
Thanks
try mongolab, the free option can easily meet your needs.
p.s. they also have restful api
this list can also help in finding out different options: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Hosting+Center