Re: How Far Can An Rails App Scale on Textdrive

David Heinemeier Hansson
Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:54:41 -0000

> Does anyone have any insight into how far a rails app can scale on
> textdrive before you need to move to a dedicated server?

I think its less a question of scale (as in number of hits), but
rather a question of criticality. Once its absolutely necessary that
the site is up always, you want go dedicated. No shared host,
TextDrive or otherwise, can guarantee that foul things won''t occur.

Of course there are no guarantees with dedicated servers either, but
at least you know its your problem when things go awry.
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