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Why must you laugh at my back end?

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Re: Why must you laugh at my back end?

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jsdalton wrote: post #31

Some weird part of me loves this, and I don't know why. That said, I'm very confused. The post says these sites are running off of your "awesome" backend: * http://www.pud.com * http://adhdinc.com But those are just pages with links to other services? Furthermore, while some of those services (TinyLetter, FaqMe) do seem to be produced by ADHD, others (Blippy, AdBrite) do not seem to be, though it seems you claim to h…

On this stack: TinyLetter.com, FaqMe.com, and many of the other sites listed on pud.com and adhdinc.com. (and more importantly, not-yet-released stuff I'm currently working on).

I co-founded both Blippy and AdBrite but did not have technical roles there, so they have nothing to do with this stack.

Re: Why must you laugh at my back end?

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Post by bobstobener »

I've built my product on CFML as well and I can't understand why it doesn't get more love from the developer community. It's a solid, productive language and the only language available in both commercial and open source (free) versions with tremendous support forums on both fronts. I personally use Railo for the CFML engine. Again, very productive and it enables me to get products to an MVP stage quickly.

Re: Why must you laugh at my back end?

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Post by mattbillenstein »

What sort of traffic do you push through this infrastructure? Micro instances only have ~600MB of memory and I found them to be severely over-sold cpu-wise -- doesn't windows require like ~300MB of RAM to just boot?

And Windows is only a penny more per hour on micro instances (although that is 50% more than Linux) -- but quite a bit more on larger instances should you ever have to scale up: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pric...

Re database choice -- http://xeround.com is totally down right now... Thoughts?

I dunno, just seems like a world of hurt should you actually have to scale up -- but presuming you do, perhaps you'd have the funds and/or resources to cover it anyway.

Additionally, How on earth do you hire people to work in this stack?!?

Re: Why must you laugh at my back end?

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Post by pud »

fatalerrorx3 wrote: post #24

You need elastic load balancing for iPhone Apps, do they call your web servers that often? How many users are you dealing with currently? Wondering if my single server in my house will be enough to launch a new web service shortly..the server is currently a quad core dedicated Ubuntu LAMP Server with 2gigs of ram that I built a little over a year ago, currently hosted off of residential cable P.S. That's a nice looki…

Several of my iPhone apps interact with a web service.

As for your situation, my cable company's upstream is so slow that I wouldn't host anything on it. But if yours is fast and you like dealing with your own hardware, go for it. Maybe you'll be the next Rackspace :)

Re: Why must you laugh at my back end?

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Post by LostInTheWoods2 »

ebiester wrote: post #27

The only piece that made me cringe was CFML. I promise that a better life awaits you if you have the courage to break free.

I had the same reaction to CFML. I too run my site on IIS, but I use ASP-JScript, which is similar in syntax to javascript. I haven't used CFML in a decade, I remember it being clunky and limited compared to ASP 3. If you really want to go modern, there is of course dot-Net.

Re: Why must you laugh at my back end?

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Post by scott_s »

humbledrone wrote: post #39
PedroCandeias wrote: post #18

I don't hang out with a lot of programmers and I guess this is the reason. This "laughing" the op alludes to. This endless discussion of what language or back end is the best. I find it impossible to talk about programming with people who would rather indoctrinate me on the benefits of their chosen language than talk about, say, data structures. It's like arguing about what colour is the best. It's pointless. So big…

Talking about the differences between, say, assembly language and Ruby is very different than arguing about what color is the best. I guarantee that some projects will be successful if written in one of those languages, and not the other (webapp in assembly? bootloader in Ruby?). Also, in your view, how is talking about data structures any better than talking about languages? Wouldn't that just be "indoctrinating me…

I think we was just trying to differentiate between advocating a particular technology versus discussing a fundamental idea. Using the examples that other people have given from hobbies and sports, it's like the inclination to discuss gear instead of the activity itself.

Re: Why must you laugh at my back end?

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Post by revorad »

pud wrote: post #21
reinhardt wrote: post #19

As long as Xeround sticks around and does what they say they can do, I’ll never have to worry about scaling my database Never heard of that database/company before so I clicked on the link out of curiosity and guess what, their server is down. Not very reassuring for an "infinitely scalable solution".

Well damn, you're right. Looks like they were Hacker News'd. Fortunately Xeround's database servers are still up, but this is a bit disconcerting.

I wanted to give them a try but if a scalable database company can't handle HN traffic, it makes me think twice.
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