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The POF one tickles me, i love the whole approach. The genius in it is not spending untold time and money building the latest whizz-bang responsive gui, or nev
by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
The POF one tickles me, i love the whole approach.
The genius in it is not spending untold time and money building the latest whizz-bang responsive gui, or never getting launched because the "web scale" back end isn't the worlds most perfect design yet. It's all just hacked together organically, with the simplest, path of least resistance choices taken at every stage.
I love that this succeeds, i love that it's not over ambitious, i love that it costs the owner minimal maintenance time.
Hats off to that man!
- bmelton 14y agoWhat I found most interesting was in the Update to the POF article where Jeff Atwood compares the cost of scaling up (as POF did) vs. scaling out (as Atwood does) and notes the comparison of 1 heavy DB server vs its equivalent cost of approximately 83 commodity boxes. The article factors in hardware and software licensing, but completely overlooks the cost of system administration. With the base cost of $100,000 used in the comparison, that's only a minor part of the price point vs. hiring the head count needed to administer 83 commodity servers, which I could reasonably see requiring a few FTEs if they performed their own hardware support.