I think most people here see the value of the article. Thank you for publishing it.

Parent comment was also valuable to me, for seeing how important it is to listen to others before jumping to conclusions about the worthiness of something.

Uh, I really liked both the article and the posts in this thread. Both are timely and right on target for me as I work to get my Web site running on the Internet.

I like the 11 million unique users a month early in the company -- simple architecture, popular programming tools and languages, small team, and likely enough ad revenue to pay the bills and get some earnings!

I wrote my code using Microsoft's Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and one use of platform invoke. The code appears to run as intended.

I like the mention of DB (relational data base): I wrote the code using a free version of Microsoft's SQL Server. Right, it's only for development work, has some severe limits on DB size, gets expensive for a production version, also a pain since have to count processor cores, was glad to see Postgres and MySQL since have been planning to use one of those. I liked seeing the mention, and remark on power, of key-value stores (e.g., Redis) since I wrote my own key-value store, with all the data just in main memory, using two instances of the .NET collection class.

Now with TB (trillion byte) main memories am even toying with the outlandish idea of keeping nearly all the DB data in main memory with SQLite -- outlandish!

And, liked seeing the steps up in capacity. That there are likely better architectural ideas now doesn't disappoint me!

The outlines of the architectures of even huge Web server farms was really good to see. You mean Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. have surprisingly simple architectures??? WOW.

There was a time when many of the OGs here would write original content, not for subscribers, not to make money, but to share our ideas, facilitate our own learning, to have to defend our ideas, to go deeper, learn more, and get better at our art. That was the way, once.

I got great value out of the article and shared it with my colleagues. Were it not for your effort, we'd never stumble upon this info, even though it existed in some other form.

Your article was clear, informative, and I learned a few things from it.

You can’t please everyone.