Database server recommendations

[jimm]

Hi there,

I am developing an iOS app which needs to communicate with a database on a server, to retrieve some data via REST based Web Service calls. The amount of data exchanged will be pretty light weight, but there could potentially be many people connecting to the database server at any one time.

Does anyone know of a decent Web Host who provides a reliable database solution, with backups, and allows many simultaneous user connections, and unlimited bandwidth?

Thanks

[lgehrig1]

Originally Posted by jimm

Hi there,

I am developing an iOS app which needs to communicate with a database on a server, to retrieve some data via REST based Web Service calls. The amount of data exchanged will be pretty light weight, but there could potentially be many people connecting to the database server at any one time.

Does anyone know of a decent Web Host who provides a reliable database solution, with backups, and allows many simultaneous user connections, and unlimited bandwidth?

Thanks

Amazon AWS ... SimpleDB is pretty cheap, and it's what I'm using in an upcoming upgrade. They just introduced DynamoDB (if you've got bazillions of bytes of data). I looked at their RDS (relational db) but it was kinda pricey ... and I can do everything I need with SimpleDB.

You're unlikely to send enough traffic to take out Amazon and, in the event it doesn't become a smash success, you're only paying for what you use.

Google also offers their App Engine - I'd come up some expected metrics and compare prices.

I can recommend Amazon as pretty easy to work with. But both offer free tiers and, especially during development, you can probably test both without spending a penny.

[1337Skittles]

hostgator.com shared server package is exactly what you want. you get unlimited bandwidth, unlimited databases etc. and a crisp 100mbit connection for 10$/month used it for 3 months with no problems before upgrading to a dedicated server

[jimm]

Thank you both for your answers, and sorry for my late reply. Both those sound ideal and I will look into both of them. My app is ready now, been testing with my own website server, but now I need to make the switch to a proper server..

Cheers again!

[mobileguyDB]

For those that haven't found a mobile database yet, Raima has RDM Mobile Edition. It's a database management system that is geared toward iphone development. Mobile Database

There is also a Server component that RDM Mobile works with.

To see how the Mobile System integrates with the Server component, view: Database Management System Mobile/Server Integration