glebpopov/Hacker-News-Droid-API — Issue #6: Regarding GAE Woes and PHP Rewrite...
Author: suan
Created: 2012-02-25 06:31:12+00:00
State: open

Hey, can't really discuss on the wiki so I thought I'd post here...

You're spending $100/m on this!? And also have a PHP app just for the scraping? Wow, I had no idea! Here are my thoughts

1. My gut feeling is that some kind of dedicated box for even $50/mo or something like that would be able to handle all the load that you need. I've definitely heard bad things about GAE, especially after the pricing hike (the autoscaling is a nice feature though if you need it). Could you run Django or Rails on that Rackspace instance? Do you think it would be able to handle all the load if you moved the main app over to it as well? Perhaps we need to rethink how the server-side is written/cached to make it more efficient =)

2. Also you might want to have a paid app version for grateful people - I'd pay!

3. Definitely consolidate it all into a single app - it'll cut down on complexity and maintainence

4. Language-wise I prefer Ruby or Python, or even Javascript compared to anything else. I guess PHP's still better than Java ;-) But its your project!

Whaddya think?