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Ask HN:Why it's hard to keep NPM running
Hi,
I'm coming from PHP background. I'm not trying to troll, just try to understand technology stack of NPM.
Lately I read lots of new about NPM and its funding that is great.
But I recall sometime someone post a bill from RubyGem.
When I compare, and from what I hear about NodeJS, it shouldn't too hard for NPM to scale.
So, can someone know what is the main different between RubyGem and NPM that makes NPM need lot of money to scale?
Thank you very much.
- pedalpete 13y agoI think you may be getting confused about why NPM took investment. When they say 'scale' (if that was the reason why they took investment), they may not mean scale as in the cost to scale the technology, but rather the costs to scale the business, hire more people to get more development to get more customers, etc. etc. I'd be surprised if NPM has a huge hardware costs.
- asb 13y agoNodejitsu who previously ran the main npm mirror raised over $300k to 'scale npm'. https://web.archive.org/web/20140109082316/https://scalenpm.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140109082316/https://scalenpm....
- kureikain 13y agoBefore that, it has a call for donation to power NPM infrastructure because of lots of server cost and to help us increase. However, I think you are right about that point. My main concertn is that can NPM run like RubyGem, be maintained by a group of volunteer. Again, NPM is great and I don't want to troll. I just really want to understand what is the greatness of NPM that make it much better than RubyGem and require much more human resouces to maintain and improve.