Oct 30 2008

On scalability and reliability

By Niyaz PK under Internet

I saw the following comparison chart in a web hosting site:

This is just nonsense. Scalability and Reliability are two things which you cannot enable on the flick of a switch. Scaling web applications is a very difficult job. For instance, twitter is still fighting scaling issues. Reliability is hard, very hard, too.

2 Responses to “On scalability and reliability”

  1. TheAnand
    on 31 Oct 2008 at 1:00 am

    hopeless….maybe this means that they respond to your help tickets after a year or something in the first plan and in 7 days in the other. :)

    I would be asking myself, why would i host myself and my business with someone who has it in writing that they are unreliable and unscalable!

  2. Niyaz PK
    on 31 Oct 2008 at 11:39 am

    Anand,
    I wonder how many people will sign up for the first plan!

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