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by kosherhurricane 210 days ago
500GB isn't a lot of data, and $3K/month seems like an extortion for that little data.

Having said that, MongoDB pricing page promises 99.995% uptime, which is outstanding, and would probably be hard to beat that doing it oneself, even after adding redundancy. But maybe you don't need that much uptime for your particular use case.
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buster 210 days ago
That's all fine and such, but i suppose the SLAs aren't covering your revenue loss.

In fact after looking at https://www.mongodb.com/legal/sla/atlas/data-federation#:~:t... it makes me wonder how much worth the SLA is. 10% Service Credit after all the limitations?

Atlas can take their 10% Service Credit, i wouldn't care. Save the money and chose a stable provider.

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arbol 210 days ago
Its more like 700GB now on the new server and we were about to have to migrate to a higher tier on Atlas.

> maybe you don't need that much uptime for your particular use case.

Correct. Thanks for reading!

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tecleandor 210 days ago
Yep, we just migrated to Atlas, and the disk size limitation of the lower instance tiers pushed us to do a round of data cleaning before the migration.

Also, we noticed that after migration, the databases that were occupying ~600GB of disk in our (very old) on premise deployment, were around 1TB big on Atlas. After talking with support for a while we found that they were using Snappy compression with a relatively low compression level and we couldn't change that by ourselves. After requesting it through support, we changed to zstd compression, rebuilt all the storage, and a day or two later our storage was under 500GB.

And backup pricing is super opaque. It doesn't show concrete pricing on the docs, just ranges. And depending on the cloud you deployed, snapshots are priced differently so you can't just multiply you storage by the number of the snapshots, and they aren't transparent about the real size of the snapshots.

All the storage stuff is messy and expensive...

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gervwyk 210 days ago
Did you have a very aggressive backup schedule?
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gizzlon 210 days ago
> Having said that, MongoDB pricing page promises 99.995% uptime

Or.. what? That's the important part

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