While it's true you can't do 1 to 1 the fact that my site does ~700 times as much traffic, and it is absolutely the latter of your two types time ten is a cause

While it's true you can't do 1 to 1 the fact that my site does ~700 times as much traffic, and it is absolutely the latter of your two types time ten is a cause for caution. This is why I want to hear from some actual enterprise level people that have solved real scaling problems, unfortunately at the conf it seemed like startup size scaling problems were being addressed, and perhaps not very well.