tag:support.appharbor.com,2010-11-23:/discussions/problems/5650-ms-sql-server-sharedAppHarbor: Discussion 2012-08-02T21:45:49Ztag:support.appharbor.com,2010-11-23:Comment/177863452012-08-02T21:45:46Z2012-08-02T21:45:46ZMS SQL Server Shared<div><p>Hi Andrei,</p>
<p>At this point we don't offer shared MS SQL server larger than
10GB. The primary reason is that we're using MS SQL Express which
has that limit - using Express allows to keep the costs low for
this offering as we don't have to incur license charges for the
database.</p>
<p>The other reason is that we generally only recommend using
shared databases for low-traffic or staging applications. While a
shared database is a very cost-effective option it is less reliable
in terms of performance. Because of that we recommend that larger,
production databases run on a dedicated instance for reliable,
consistent performance.</p>
<p>You're right about MS SQL server vs MySQL - MS SQL server
certainly represent the lions share of provisioned databases over
MySQL.</p>
<p>We'll add some more details to the dedicated MySQL offering, but
it'll be along the lines of the dedicated MSSQL plans - i.e.
ranging between 100-1000GB.</p>
<p>Hope this helps and let us know if there's anything else we can
help with.</p>
<p>Best,<br>
Rune</p></div>rune