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Re:Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007 by bigiain on Sunday November 29, 2020 @05:55PM (#25248859)
For proper early 2000s nostalgia, I reckon the backend should actually be Apache mod_perl, with the ".cfm" extension script aliased to Perl CGI scripts because management tell everybody "it's running on Adobe!"...
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Re:Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007 by hestefisk on Sunday November 29, 2020 @06:18PM (#25249031)
Aah yes, mod_perl. That brings back memories.
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Re:Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007 by peterwwillis on Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:57PM (#25250330)
If you had enough rack space, mod_perl+Apache2 could scale to anything you needed. Hundreds of Gbps, hundreds of thousands of RPS. Inefficient, sure, but seriously flexible+performant and really easy to deploy. I miss the old stacks, as Nginx and the other httpds really suck in comparison (feature-wise) and Java is still such a huge PITA. I'd honestly rather use modern PHP than today's Java webapps.
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Re:Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007 by jasonjayr on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:51PM (#25250556)
Some of us still run mod_perl stacks .... :)
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Re:Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007 by cutler on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:24AM (#25252696)
PHP is pseudo-Java anyway so where's the win?
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