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Every now and then I'll read something on HN that tempts me to experiment with the latest hot technology or platform on my little side project. Then I remind m

Every now and then I'll read something on HN that tempts me to experiment with the latest hot technology or platform on my little side project. Then I remind myself it's not just a little side project, it's meant to be a business and I think of an article[1] I read about how Markus built POF with just plain old ASP.NET - it's not ideal, but the important thing is it works and the business success speaks for itself. [1] http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture

UweSchmidt 12y ago
May I ask how plain old ASP.NET is not ideal? What are the main scalability problems you've encountered? Your link shows some things they decided to do to make it work; which of these problems would have been avoided using other tools? Which of these problems could not have been solved by using a more suitable architecture (using ASP.NET techniques)? Thanks for any insight.
- markuspof 12y ago
  asp had a ton of memory leaks and IIS needed to be constantly restated, it also couldn't support a lot of concurrent users.
  - us0r 12y ago
    Are you still on the same set up or running with newer stuff now?
danielh 12y ago
Keep in mind that ASP.NET 1.0 was published in January 2002 and PoF was launched in 2003. It was actually a side project to learn the latest hot technology.