Is 20 MB generally enough for a blog database in SQL Server or MySQL?

Question

I want to deploy my blog on AppHarbor. But the free size of the database is 20 MB. I am not yet ready to pay $10/month for the 10GB database. My question is: would this be sufficient for a simple blog with one post a week?

I am not going to use any blogging engine. I will write my own engine with just posts in the database. I plan to use Disqus for comments.

Answer 1

That's basic math, really.

One post a week of say 10kB per post, would make you last 200 weeks. Mutatis mutandis:

          D bytes per database
---------------------------------------  = weeks per database
(N posts per week) x (S bytes per post)

Answer 2

yes, 20MB of data is a lot of data (if it's text based).

Answer 3

If you're just using text, no images or media, that should be fine. It takes a lot of text to reach 20MB...

Roughly it gives you 4,194,304 words to play with (given 1 byte per character, average of 5 characters per word)

Answer 4

It should be enough. Consider that our blog (wordpress based) has almost 1000 posts and around 1000 comments. And the database is less than 5 MB.

Answer 5

for images u can use something like photobucket, where only links are to be pasted.... 20 MB is a HUGE quantity! I would reckon u start with 1 MB from a weekly basis and then go on to 20 MB, will save a bit of $$