Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way
by lallysingh on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:07PM
(#424278)
Yeah, just don't go the cuil route and advertise heavily for a sudden spike-induced system failure.
Build up your traffic slowly, and ramp up your scalability with it. Bumps nobody minds (or really notices, really), it's the giant crashes that get noticed.
Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way
by aneesh on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @08:25PM
(#424301)
Cuil's problem wasn't even that their site crashed (that was just a minor blip). Their main problem was that their search results weren't very relevant.
Build up your traffic slowly, and ramp up your scalability with it. Bumps nobody minds (or really notices, really), it's the giant crashes that get noticed.