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To akavlie's Ram limit comment: We run on Google AppEngine. It gives us great scalability, but it limits us to about 512 Megs of ram.

We made this choice because with a small team it gave us the most freedom to focus on the code, rather than the scalability and the infrastructure. We don't manage servers, or routers, or load balancers.

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I was going to ask about that, seemed strange to feel that a self imposed constraint was a challenge you had to work around.

There are other options outside of app engine that could help you achieve the same thing. I outsource most of my processing to picloud (specifically because I need more ram than I have).

I don't work in your field but I think it's a really interesting problem you're working on.

If you are going to compete with Google you might as well step in to the arena running on the same hardware. :-)

Also the best targets for acquisition put Google high on the list so building things the way they would makes sense.

Well, technically we are now allowed a limit of 1GB per instance, as of a couple of months ago:

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2013/02/app-engine-175-r...

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