On Jan 20, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Matt Palmer <mpal...@hezmatt.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:54:37PM -0800, George Herbert wrote: >> On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Matt Palmer <mpal...@hezmatt.org> wrote: >>> >>> Storing any state server-side is a really bad idea for scalability and >>> reliability. >> >> ? >> >> Doing that - into a user state DB of sone sort, either external or in >> middleware, is routine... > > It may be routine, but it is an additional point of failure, and it is also > an additional scaling bottleneck. If all you ever run are tiny sites with > little chance of ever seeing big loads, sure, stick it in a DB somewhere. > But if you ever think (or even hope) that your site will take off one day, > it pays to think about these things and reduce the number of fires to put > out by one. I'm talking about multimillion user sites... I designed the hosting infrastructure for one and have been a consulting architect later in the site lifecycle for several others... George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone
