indie db hosting woes

Hello,

I am in the process of designing a mmo like game.

Right now i am exploring and designing diffrent aspects of the game (for phones tablets and pc), and i would like to be able to estimate how much it will cost assuming (10, 100,1000 .... 10000000 online users..)

T$$anonymous$$s game will need a consistent layer. in the event of t$$anonymous$$s game actually pulling through, we will obviously more resources, than just using some cheap host (one of those 5$ plans). what is the equivalent for photon, for consistent data (where should i host my db)?

im having hard time to understand what kind of host i should look for. i would like to be able to scale my project (more space, simoultanous connecetions ,cpu etc), but the only solutions i was able to find were extremely expensive.

• db like mysql, sql or anyt$$anonymous$$ng really is just fine.(flat file likes db also fine)

I am looking for a specific host name, just like photon for example solves your realtime problems(or smartfox).

• i can use either relational database or not

• amazon servers for examples, looks kinda expensive or i just dont understand how their price....

Thank you for your help!