>What is the actual cost/risk/benefit work out to be? Cost in terms of development, maintenance, hosting, opportunity for future expansion? Right below where y

>What is the actual cost/risk/benefit work out to be? Cost in terms of development, maintenance, hosting, opportunity for future expansion? Right below where you quoted the author he stated his biggest risk - denial of service not due to his site having performance issues but his logging solution not being able to keep up if he had an unanticipated traffic spike. That would indeed be a rather nasty case of self-ownage; the benefits of avoiding that should be pretty obvious.