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I disagree, mostly because if your product takes off, that single day or few weeks where the adoption rate sky rockets may be your defining moment for your star
by Salgat 4y ago
I disagree, mostly because if your product takes off, that single day or few weeks where the adoption rate sky rockets may be your defining moment for your startup, and scaling up on the cloud is trivial in comparison. Remember, when you're that small, the expenses of the cloud vs dedicated hardware is tiny compared to your employee expenses anyways.
- mattmanser 4y agoTwitter used to go down regularly in the early days. Reddit did too, even years after it became popular. Facebook I can't be certain now, but I think it would break in the early days. And even right now today, ChatGPT regularly displays "too busy" messages. i.e. this is absolute tosh. And if you know what you're doing you can take something down overnight and put it on a dedicated server.
- anonylizard 4y ago"ChatGPT regularly displays "too busy" messages." ChatGPT scaled from 0 users to 100 million in 2 months. Probably millions online at any given second. Its too busy, because it literally exhausted all the GPUs Azure has as its disposal. Without the Cloud, scaling ChatGPT would have been impossible. It would have been nowhere near its current success. Remember that GPT3 was released to the public in Mid 2022, had no public reaction, because it was put behind a paywall. ChatGPT had to be free, and able to cope with the load, to be successful.
- mattmanser 4y agoFalse. It is not coping with the load. It is successful. Therefore, it did not have to be able to cope with the load to be successful. All you did is illustrate my point.
- Salgat 4y agoThat's because ChatGPT was able to sustain service past the point of mass adoption. You're not going to scale to millions of users in a short timespan with dedicated hardware.