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I have to say a big AMEN here. There are many startups that should just buy a dual-quad core Nehalem (or AMD Magny-Cours) system with redundant power supplies,
by patrickgzill 16y ago
I have to say a big AMEN here.
There are many startups that should just buy a dual-quad core Nehalem (or AMD Magny-Cours) system with redundant power supplies, 32GB or more of RAM, and fast disks (or even spend on a RAID5 of SSDs) and stop worrying about scaling for the meantime.
- generalk 16y agoIt's like a game of poker: always leave yourself outs. Have a few plans for how you can scale beyond "more RAM and faster disks" if the need arises, but don't move on them until you have to.
- mishmash 16y agoThe problem for me is not hardware, got a couple of older machines here that could easily run my current project (nginx + node + mongo), but the problem is symmetrical bandwidth is fabulously expensive.
- rythie 16y agoI/O is the scaling problem for most web startups, so it's really mostly about scaling RAM and to a lesser extent adding some SSDs.
- Devilboy 16y agoIf I could send myself a tweet to 2001 it would include 'Buy RAM & SSDs'