Re: Looking for Partner for a New Bitcoin Business

I'm going to have to side with gweedo as well... ASP.NET is horrible for scaling. Not technically, although the things POF.com have had to do to make it run well are pretty damning, but financially. A startup could really put to better use the $800 spent on each Windows Server license, not to mention the $2500+ for a MSSQL server (1 core!!!) license. Even their bizspark stuff has costs looming in the future. Also, for a Bitcoin web site you don't want to touch Azure for security reasons (at least not for the backend.)

Personally, I see lots of .NET shops considering moving off of the framework in general since Microsoft is very sketchy on the roadmap with WinRT/Windows 8 and especially with the disconnect between ASP.NET and the web. MVC is a step in the right direction but I don't think it has enough traction to be viable long term. Also, if Microsoft ever pulls the plug, you get stuck...

Python all the way!!! Tongue

Edit: oh yeah, you should ping all the people that posted in this topic: Anyone looking for work? (Lol, none of them are .NET devs)

Yeah nothing in there was right. Not scalable? Stackexchange is an example of a web project built using ASP.NET (2.8 million users, 13 million+ questions & answers)
As for licensing startups can get essentially licenses for up to three years using Microsoft bizspark program.
Microsoft pulling the plug on asp.net or MVC is just nonsense? Absolute nonsense.

Just the normal mindless "Microsoft sucks" from people who have never done any professional software development in their lives.

Yes stackexchange is built on ASP.NET BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT they have System engineers that have put a lot machines and hardware at the problem, maybe you should take a look at this

http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-architecture.html

What point are you trying to get a across? That to optimise a website you need System Engineers? Well that's kind of a given when you are looking at a scale that big.

You will have these exact same problems with MySQL when looking at that scale. You can only scale up to some extent, then you will require techniques to allow you to scale out, like using replication.