Re:Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution
by vlucas on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @10:48AM
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Unfortunately, PHP is still the easiest thing for most people to setup and use, so that's what we went with for a self-hosted option. We are strongly considering a node.js version that would allow a lot more users. Is that something you might be interested in?
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Re:Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution
by mgkimsal on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:34AM
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Shouldn't be 'unfortunate' - PHP is a perfectly fine for this sort of thing. You can address the 'ultrascalable/node/nginx/caching/i've-got-2-million-users-on-one-server-running-on-my-ipod' type of user demands after you're profitable with this first version.
The 'self-hosting' thing shouldn't even be just about saving money - there's a strong case to be made for security/privacy by self-hosting this sort of software internally.
Re:Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution
by vlucas on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @12:01PM
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I say "unfortunately" not because of PHP, but because other languages like Python and Ruby are still not as widely used. PHP's "upload-and-go" approach is a big reason for its wide success.