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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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