your situation is probably completly different from mine...

Yeh, sounds like it... I'm unemployed and I can only afford a basic server on a budget of about $20 a month. I am therefore forced to make the absolute most out of very limited hardware, at least until one of my sites becomes financially productive when I will be able to scale my hosting plan up.

The practical upshot of being so highly restricted is that the code which runs fast on such a tiny box is going to kick arse when it gets run on a decent size box.

I once had access to some IBM Big Iron, I have no idea how much ram it had or how much processing power as the service was provided on the basis of price per megabyte of storage. That was a few years ago now and at the time I couldn't see any problem with the efficiency of my system.

It wasn't until quite recently when contemplating what would be needed to run a massive-multiplayer online game that I realised the software I had was not going to be anywhere near fast enough for the task given the size of server I can afford, so the quest to speed it up began and that's why aXML got optimised and married to Plack, with the result being that now it's several orders of magnitude faster and even a poxy little $20 a month server is a sufficient basis for several hundred concurrent users... and my path is clear to develop the game I have in mind and have wanted to get stuck into writing for a long time now.

You know what aXML is a stupid unimaginative name... I really need to find a better one. I have been toying with "Diamond", or maybe "Sapphire". Either would be better and given that we already have "Perl" and "Ruby", the precious gem moniker seems to fit quite nicely with current trends.

In reply to Re^4: Can your site handle this? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Can your site handle this? by Logicus

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