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its easier to preach than actually do, you ALWAYS start thinking, "man I need more content" or "this one extra feature will REALLY make us take off." same thin

by vaksel 17y ago

its easier to preach than actually do, you ALWAYS start thinking, "man I need more content" or "this one extra feature will REALLY make us take off." same thing goes for the servers, everyone starts out thinking that they need some server farm, just in case they hit some success. Here is a dirty little secret, don't expect overnight success, you'll have plenty of time to grow into needing that big server, but there is no point in wasting money on something you don't need.

lucumo 17y ago
> Here is a dirty little secret, don't expect overnight success, you'll have plenty of time to grow into needing that big server, but there is no point in wasting money on something you don't need. Definitely true. One remark though: "plenty of time" won't be entirely true. When you first need to scale up you probably don't have any kind of server monitoring set up. There's more important stuff to be done. This means that you will notice far too late that you're out of capacity. It will be hard work and it will be painful for you and your start-up.
- vaksel 17y ago
  The best bet is to just use the cloud, like AWS. Sure it's not as fast as a dedicated server...but honestly is it really that bad? You might get 90% performance, and chances are your users won't even notice. It scales for you, and you only pay for what you use. So if your site starts out slow, you'll be paying similar costs to a shared server. If your site takes off, you'll be paying similar costs as a dedicated server. But the important thing, is that you won't have to bother guessing which will be the case for your site.
- drusenko 17y ago
  There are many things you don't need to be focused on at the start, but monitoring is something you should set up from the very, very beginning. Knowing when you're open for business and when you're not is absolutely crucial. Plus, it's cheap -- $5/month or less.
  - lucumo 17y ago
    I wasn't talking about up-or-down monitoring. That's just last resort. But once you're down, you're too late.

by vaksel 17y ago

lucumo 17y ago

> Here is a dirty little secret, don't expect overnight success, you'll have plenty of time to grow into needing that big server, but there is no point in wasting money on something you don't need. Definitely true. One remark though: "plenty of time" won't be entirely true. When you first need to scale up you probably don't have any kind of server monitoring set up. There's more important stuff to be done. This means that you will notice far too late that you're out of capacity. It will be hard work and it will be painful for you and your start-up.

vaksel 17y ago
The best bet is to just use the cloud, like AWS. Sure it's not as fast as a dedicated server...but honestly is it really that bad? You might get 90% performance, and chances are your users won't even notice. It scales for you, and you only pay for what you use. So if your site starts out slow, you'll be paying similar costs to a shared server. If your site takes off, you'll be paying similar costs as a dedicated server. But the important thing, is that you won't have to bother guessing which will be the case for your site.
drusenko 17y ago
There are many things you don't need to be focused on at the start, but monitoring is something you should set up from the very, very beginning. Knowing when you're open for business and when you're not is absolutely crucial. Plus, it's cheap -- $5/month or less.
- lucumo 17y ago
  I wasn't talking about up-or-down monitoring. That's just last resort. But once you're down, you're too late.