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Re:Can you build a startup on .Net? by hkarthik on Monday April 16, 2012 @03:53PM (#3849033)
It's definitely possible to spin up a Windows instance on EC2 and get it running. Many startups built on .NET do that today.

As for the sysadmin on the software side, I agree most .NET devs that want to build something probably have those skills. It's the hardware aspect that I think needed to be addressed.

The OP espoused the easy scalability of .NET using the Stackoverflow example without mentioning that they colocated with dedicated hardware.

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Re:Can you build a startup on .Net? by rudyl on Monday April 16, 2012 @04:37PM (#3849284)
good point. StackOverflow used physical boxes not virtual servers and that certainly makes scaling a database easier. On the other hand I currently host HireFlo on a single Rackspace cloudserver. I have 3 web apps, a SQL server instance, and 2 processors hosted on the same VS and it's working well so far. I'll definitely move SQL Server off to it's own box at some point though.
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