[Catalyst] Re: two Catalyst flaws

[Mike Whitaker]

On 3 Jan 2008, at 18:39, J. Shirley wrote:
> If your project can't afford an extra $20-$40/mo, and it is a for- 
> profit venture, then a business plan needs reevaluated.  And if it  
> costs you an additional $40/mo to get enough RAM to run your app,  
> maybe a VPS isn't for you?  You can get 1U of space in the $30-$40/ 
> mo range, buy an eBay server for $250 and slap more RAM in it and  
> bring your operating cost to under $70/mo with hardware you own and  
> can upgrade as you see fit.


Admittedly, I have no idea of the details of the project, this is  
true. But, hardware is cheap compared to the programmer time of any  
programmer worth his salt that could be better spent on features.  
This was not always the case (fond memories of recompiling kernels at  
midnight every night and rolling them round 40 servers during the  
1999 Cricket World Cup in an attempt to make cricinfo.com run  
faster), but I really do fail to see how memory or disk space should  
be a bottleneck (except for rampant leaks) in any modern project, any  
more than hits/second of your chosen framework is.
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