1) Your read / inserts / updates values โโwill be very different from the size of the EC2 instance you are using. A large instance of EC2 can perform 320,000 operations per second . Here is a breakdown of what โoperationsโ means in this sense:
IIRC, there were ~ 20,000 each of the entries, deletions, updates, inserts, teams, and also get mores and ~ 200,000 views. I think it was a fairly large dataset, but tomorrow I will check with Eliot. - Kristina Chodorov
2) MongoDB is single-threaded, and most EC2 instances have 2 or more processors. This way you can run two processes on the same machine. Auto-sharding seems to work quite well in the current version for use in a production environment, but there are no Replica kits (they will handle replication and automatically switch to another resource). Therefore, feel free to use automatic delineation with the manual master-slave configurations, and then replace the master-slave configuration in July when the Replica sets are out of alpha.
3) MongoHQ , MongoMachine both offer MongoDB hosting.
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