Re: Looking for Partner for a New Bitcoin Business - Developer Wanted
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I guess Azure may be an option I have never done testing to see how responsive their database in the cloud can be to very high loads.
Oh yeah, I should point out that I haven't checked out Azure personally, but I consider all cloud providers incompatible with Bitcoin security requirements (which is unfortunate because my Linode VPS is great.)I agree there is value in open platforms and SQL Server is one of Microsofts most expensive and most restricted products. I think this got somewhat sidetracked (partially my fault). The original claim (not by you) was that asp.net doesn't scale and is expensive. asp.net can use any RDBMS as a backend and is highly scalable. For a new startup SQL Server is likely the easiest route as there is going to be some skills overlap but beyond 64GB or 16 cores I agree there is significant cost. It is something a startup would need to consider.
As a personal note:
To avoid vendor lock in whenever possible I try to keep the database code as ANSI SQL compliant as possible to allow a "backdoor" by keeping the migration costs & complexity to a minimum.
As a personal note:
To avoid vendor lock in whenever possible I try to keep the database code as ANSI SQL compliant as possible to allow a "backdoor" by keeping the migration costs & complexity to a minimum.
Nah we should blame gweedo instead.
I wasn't clear enough in my original post since I do think that ASP.NET is OK for scaling technically, but I just wanted to point out some gotchas and hidden costs on the business side. Granted those are probably a bit out of the range of a Bitcoin business for a while, but I can always hope for crazy volume...Also, RAM is incredibly cheap now! I'm sure MS will change their licensing tune if they can foresee a hit to the Server and Tools business.