On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:40:04PM +0900, Ruby Maniac wrote: > > Ruby scales just fine as long as you are willing to throw a ton of > compute hardware at it ! > > I believe Twitter is successfully using Ruby for their site but then > they have also invested in a ton of servers dedicated to running > hundreds of Mongrels. > > So yeah, get out your checkbooks and write more checks for more > servers and sure Ruby scales just fine ! Assuming about an 80k salary and a 2,000 dollar server, a server is worth about 50 hours of programmer time. I just figured I'd provide a simple starting place for comparing the cost of software development with that of hardware upgrades. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] awj @reddit: "The terms never and always are never always true."