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Unfortunately, this sort of information is still too vague to make even a stab in the dark at server sizing worthwhile. If you're curious about how much CodeAca
by retroafroman 15y ago
Unfortunately, this sort of information is still too vague to make even a stab in the dark at server sizing worthwhile. If you're curious about how much CodeAcademy needed, I bet someone would be willing to tell if you tweeted/emailed/facebooked them. If you're looking for more data points I bet a lot of start ups would be willing to share their server info (and a lot have here at HN).
If you're asking because you want to know for your own project, don't put the cart before the horse-build it, do some testing and you'll be able to make an assumption that is actually based on something more than guesses.
- japhyr 15y agoThanks, I thought it would be easy to give a ballpark answer. I will keep an eye out for a discussion of scaling in regards to server needs. Actually, if anyone can point to such a discussion on HN I'd appreciate it. I couldn't easily find a relevant discussion, because the word "server" appears in so many threads.
- retroafroman 15y agoI just searched and maybe these conversations don't come up as often as I thought. On the other hand, it's also difficult to nail this sort of topic down because so many startups use Heroku, EngineYard, AWS, etc, so it's more like number of instances vs. number of servers. It seems Quora has a lot more insight. Examples here: http://www.quora.com/How-Many-Servers-Does-X-Have http://www.quora.com/How-Many-Servers-Does-X-Have