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I 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 sc

I 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 ago
Nodejitsu 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 ago
Before 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.