On the web server scalability and speed are almost the same thing

Re:On the web server scalability and speed are almost the sa... by fleitz on Friday April 01, 2011 @04:51PM (#2398004)

My point is that out of the gate I'd rather have 2011 tools running on 1999 hardware than 1999 software running on 2011 hardware. A 2011 dev team will run circles around a 1999 dev team because their tools are better and allow them to iterate much more quickly. By the time your startup overwhelms a Pentium 3 server you should have enough profit to by new stuff.

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Re:On the web server scalability and speed are almost the sa... by Retric on Friday April 01, 2011 @05:11PM (#2398092)

Good luck getting a PIII to serve Ruby on Rails content fast enough to keep people interested and cheap enough to still make a profit from advertising.

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Re:On the web server scalability and speed are almost the sa... by mnutt on Friday April 01, 2011 @05:32PM (#2398171)

I actually tried this recently. Page load speed isn't too bad at all, but the time it takes to start up the rails stack is awful. It's unusable for dev work.

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Re:On the web server scalability and speed are almost the sa... by rbanffy on Friday April 01, 2011 @11:01PM (#2398971)

OTOH, his shorter time to market also imply smaller product cost. With that difference, it could make sense to invest in beefier servers.

You could end up having 2011 technology on 2014 servers competing with 1999 tech on 2011 servers.

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