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I'm sorry, but $2,500 a month to run this site just seems high...I'm not sure what technology pud used to create the site, but it'd be interesting to know. I'd
by rufugee 15y ago
I'm sorry, but $2,500 a month to run this site just seems high...I'm not sure what technology pud used to create the site, but it'd be interesting to know. I'd love to see my own sites get this much traffic, but damned if I could really afford to carry the success for too many months. This is where I really think the whole Rails (not saying he used rails...just using it as an example) argument of cheaper development costs but higher server costs breaks down. For the single entrepreneur, and app implemented in Rails versus one in a much faster/resource-friendy (PHP? Java?) framework/language could mean real, significant, insurmountable costs.
Of course, I could be wrong, and I'm sure someone will throw out the rails-is-not-the-bottleneck-the-database-is argument, but I recall reading an article about the gentleman who wrote plentyoffish.com in an unorthodox fashion with C#, and was able to run it for some time successfully on his home machine, then on one physical server. I think this would likely be impossible with rails.
And I say this as a rails fan/developer...
- redguava 15y agobuiltwith.com is showing fandalism to be running on IIS. It was quite a rant you had about rails before even checking. You can write a resource hog application in any language just like you can write an efficient app in any language. Don't blame the tools. This isn't to say different languages are all the same with performance levels, I just think it's negligible compared to the different performance levels of developers.
- rufugee 15y agoQuite the rant? Really? Could've sworn I said I'm not sure what technology pud used to create the site, but it'd be interesting to know, and not saying he used rails...just using it as an example. Regardless, thanks for the builtwith.com tip. I haven't seen that before. It's a little odd though...if I'm reading it right, it says he's running IIS, but using java and cold fusion?
- masonhensley 15y agoHe wrote a post about his backend in August, I think it relates to this project. (He uses ColdFusion) http://pud.com/post/9582597828/why-must-you-laugh-at-my-back-end http://pud.com/post/9582597828/why-must-you-laugh-at-my-back...
- rufugee 15y agoMissed that. Thanks!
- pud 15y agoThe good news is when you get a site with traffic numbers like this, investors (angel and otherwise) come out of the woodwork. So you'd have nothing to worry about. In other words, I chose to self-fund. But if that's an option for you, you'd be okay either way.
- yaix 15y agoHosting on Amazon. I am pretty sure he could run the site from two or three USD 100/month servers easily, even though its written in ColdFusion.