Is there a specific reason why you chose meteor vs other node frameworks? All I've heard is its not production ready yet - dunno if your performance issues have anything to do with it tho.
I'm a huge fan of meteor. I'm curious about the performance of Meteor too. At the moment I think it's creating castles that is bringing the server down, working on a fix for that then I'll see how it runs.
Where did you hear it is not production ready? I heard it was well funded north of 10 million?
Since when is funding a sign of a production ready product?
it's production ready — however it's still very early in the life of the framework, so expect the unexpected.