>you should be thinking "how can I build a site that will have scaling troubles?" I work for a company that does consulting for startups, and occasionally one

>you should be thinking "how can I build a site that will have scaling troubles?" I work for a company that does consulting for startups, and occasionally one of our clients takes off like a rocket. Everyone has scaling problems, even the people who have thought about and worked on scaling. Load tests and projections are only so good: at the end of the day theory will meet practice and we all know who wins there. We always tell them the same thing, "these are good problems to have". Everyone has a sleepless week or so until the bottlenecks are cleared, and then life is back to normal (except now people have heard about that thing you've been working on for the past couple years).