It's not necessarily the money, it's actually that it's too early in the development. Nowhere in the post did I say this was to see how fast Mongrel2 was. It

It's not necessarily the money, it's actually that it's too early in the development. Nowhere in the post did I say this was to see how fast Mongrel2 was. It was to make sure I wasn't screwing things up. To do that I don't need an EC2 cluster or some complex setup, I just need to hit the two servers on localhost and compare them. Later I can setup a few machines and do all sorts of performance testing, but it probably wouldn't matter. Guys like Dave would always find something to criticize and usually have an agenda that means they have to criticize anything I do. I'm probably instead going to focus on making Mongrel2 do cool stuff instead of bikeshed performance to satisfy the Daves of the world. My personal motto with Mongrel2 has kind of been, "10% slower is alright if it's 100% smarter." That's more of what I want, since there's plenty of servers out there that are fast as hell, but they're also impossible to work with in modern apps.