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This looks expensive. How well does this scale?

• foxhop 15y ago
  LinkPeek.com == web scale It could get expensive but we did hours of research when developing this solution so that it will scale and keep costs down.
  • bigiain 15y ago
    Not wanting to be _too_ snarky, but I hardly think "hours of research" translates to "web scale". Do you _honestly_ think you could keep this up if, say, someone wrote a Wordpress plugin that automatically linked all your eBay sales screenshots into your blog, and Wordpress then installed it on their hosted service? (Maybe I'm using the term "web scale" wrong, but in my head "web scale" means "the sort of problems Google, Facebook, and maybe Yahoo mostly get right, and almost everybody else mostly gets wrong". And the failure to predict the _first_ thing people would do is point it at goatse is a prime example of "getting it wrong".)
    • foxhop 15y ago
      I agree, I was sort of mocking the term 'web scale' as a joke. At this point we wouldn't be able to scale automatically but with some reasonable metrics we could plan capacity accordingly.