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Re:Why I Don’t Host My Own Blog Anymore by copenhagencoder on Thursday February 09, 2012 @04:35PM (#3573203)
Facebook began using HipHop (their PHP compiler) at a time when they already had 200 million users and a website that by definition is very hard to cache. So in other words, PHP without Facebook's custom compiler was able to handle a site having 200 million frequently returning users. I'd say that's pretty good.

Sources: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/HipHop-Facebook-s-PHP... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

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Re:Why I Don’t Host My Own Blog Anymore by gridspy on Thursday February 09, 2012 @06:24PM (#3573664)
But it wasn't all running on a single VPS.

If OP had thrown more hardware (and hardware costs) at the equation his problems would have reduced.

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