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by old-gregg 4851 days ago
Hey guys, congrats on launching. (this is the launch right?) As others said, your design/appearance is awesome and the pricing calculator is superb.

Some feedback:

  * Seems like you're on AWS. I would like that to be disclosed: 
    when picking hosting these things matter, wouldn't you agree?
  * Secondly, you don't seem to be protecting yourself from abuse: by charging 
    for docs you're on the hook of someone storing a ton of large
    documents - think GridFS.
Anyway, congrats again!
1 comments

Yes we're mostly on AWS. We actually use AWS for most of the infrastructure and then Azure for hold stats we push. This will be added to FAQ, ASAP. I agree that is does matter.

GridFS stores chucks as different documents so this still should be fine for our pricing scheme. Each chunk is saved in 256K document.

Thanks for the comment.

Be careful :) The node driver lets the developer set the chunkSize which can be up to max BSON document size (16MB at the moment). So you might want to keep that in mind.
Yeah great point.