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negligible? It all depends on how much hardware you have. If you're a startup, you don't want scaling to cost you anymore than the hardware. I remember reading
by awill 5y ago
negligible? It all depends on how much hardware you have. If you're a startup, you don't want scaling to cost you anymore than the hardware.
I remember reading years ago about the FB vs MySpace fight.
MySpace was (I think) .NET on Windows with SQL Server. Every extra machine cost a fortune in licensing. Whereas every FB machine was PHP/MySQL.
It matters.
- nobleach 5y agoOriginal MySpace was ColdFusion. They later migrated to .NET. I can't imagine wanting to pay for either one of those back in that era.
- rbanffy 5y ago> It all depends on how much hardware you have. If you're a startup, you don't want scaling to cost you anymore than the hardware. A lot of companies operate with a dozen or so servers, and most startups never need to scale beyond that.